Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 03/16/07 09:57

On Mar 16, 9:49 am, "Nosferatum" <John.Ola...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to query a database for users with password and retrieve these
> with a third variable, "level". That's easy.
>
> username, password, level
>
> If entered username and password exist, get these and the
> corresponding level from the db.
> This array of data should then be used in order to access one of four
> web folders ONLY. This folder should only be accessible for those with
> username and password and level matching from the row in the db.
>
> It would be easy to limit access with .htaccess / .htpasswd in the
> folder, but it's hundreds of records with users and passwords which
> belong to one of four levels.
>
> So how to solve this access protection?
> (I am a really newbie, please be patient. I jus't need a solution to
> this, hopefully with code. The server runs Apache - Fedora and php
> 4.3.9).

Dear Nosferatum,

have a look at the PEAR library:

http://pear.php.net/search.php?q=authentication&in=packages&x=0&y=0

good luck
Martin


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