How to control a session with password in PHP3?

[Anon]

I made a news website, and need to check the password entered <b>once</b> in four or five pages. How can I transport the password to the next page to check it with the login?

If possible, I would like to cryptograph (is that correct?) the password. I tried the crypt() function, but it couldn´t work.

[Anon]

Easiest way is to use cookies.

There are other ways, but they can be rather complex.

-Ben

[Anon]

There's a good article here:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/05/index2a.html

This gives you some different options using HTTP authentication headers which persist throughout an area.

For encrypting your password, try:

$password = "goodone";
$salt = "h7"; //or any other two character string to vary the encryption
$encrypted_pass = CRYPT($password,$salt);

print "$password<br>"
print "$encrypted_pass";

The result should be a 13 character UNIX DES encrypted string. Note that this cannot be unencrypted, so if you want to compare your password, you have encrypt it with the same salt and then compare the db result with your given password.

Hope this helps.