Posted by cover on 07/10/07 04:00

I'm trying to password the 'update' page of a MySQL database that runs
on a company intranet w/Apache and PHP. I don't care about the
'entry' page to this database - just the 'update' page and want the
five people (or so) who may be doing updates, to enter only a password
and then write that password to the MySQL database field.

On my entry page as the last part of my form, I'm using;
<tr>
<td>Password:</td><td align="left"><input type="password"
name="password" size="15" maxlength="15" value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" align="center"><input type="submit"
value="Enter"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

What I'm looking for is pointers on how to make the second page of
this work query work based on meeting the criteria of a password
element - i.e: 2nd page

$password = $_POST['password'];

if (!$password = 'password stored in database' allow write))
{
else echo PASSWORD must match file on record for this user;
}


I know this isn't the code precisely but am hopeful for any pointers
in making it happen. Again, I'm not looking for a complete login
since it IS an intranet - just looking to write to the database the
user who did the update (provided the password criteria was met).
TIA...

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