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Anon

Hello my question is I want to beable to use the password file that is created by htpasswd to authrntication for PHP, I have read the article on HTTP authentication with PHP and have tried both methods and I get a error message back from my headers. My goal is to get the $PHP_AUTH_USER to out put to the screen by using the login from the .htaccess, this is allused for progreSQL, any help will is very noted, thanks for reading this and hope to hear from you soon

Thanks Scotty

dcomartin

From my understanding $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PASS are only created when you are sending the headers with PHP. So if your directory has an .htaccess you cannot use those variables, you would have to create the 401 headers which create the authentication dialog box. Make sense?

Anon

thank you Derek C for your help and I tried that and no luck my server will not support it, but I have fond a different way that way is to use the $conn = pg_connect method this is what I have so far in my server

this example is from the webpage http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-connect.php everything works great but If i put in a invalid password then then it still lets me in but if there is a vaild user and database then it lets me me, any thoughts of my they password is not working correectly

dbconn3 = pg_Connect ("user=lamb password=baaaa dbname=mary ");
//connect to a database named "mary" with a username and password

dcomartin

I'm confused on what you are trying to do.
Let me try and understand...

You are trying to connect to your database, if you enter a valid username and database then the connection works. If you enter an invalid password then it still works?

Anon

that is correct but if the user name or database are not valid it will not be valided so im wondering why the password is not taking effect,

Anon

It sounds to me like youre not checking the password at all. username and database are required for a postgres connection, otherwise you'll error out.

I think you should check if postgress has a password set for that account/database.

it will let anyone in by default.