Store pwd & ID

[Anon]

I wonder how to do if I want to use PHP to add users to htaccess? I'm writing a small program and I want the users to enter their e-mailadress as "username" and then they can enter a personal pwd. When they hit the "Submit"-button it's recorded for future use.
Please help me finding out how to store the new ID's + pwd in some kind of database (or htaccess).

Regards/Laura

[Anon]

Allowing php to run commands on your server especially htpasswd would be highly insecure, I would suggest iserting the usenrames and passwords into a database, possibly a MySQL database if you have access to one.

[Anon]

htaccess is definately NOT the place to store userdata.
This file is only for setting access rights on webpages.

Instead, setup some kind of database, like MySQL.
The manual has some examples of how to store data in a database, that should give you an idea of how it works.

If you can't setup a database, you can store the user data in a textfile.
PHP's filesystem functions let you read a file into an array that you can work with
to find/change users.