php and htaccess

[Anon]

Hi all,

I would like to have a login form whereby the user can enter their login details, rather than the Authentication box normally associated with .htaccess. Is there any way the information entered can be used by apache to authenticate afterwards?

e.g. I have a folder /subject/ which is protected by .htaccess. The user will go to my login.htm to fill in their username and password. The form post to the login.php. Then forward them to /subject/ and the authentication would be automatic withour the popup of the htaccess windows.

Is it possible for php to do such thing?

[Anon]

Did U find a solution?

[Anon]

If you did I would be very interested as well - just spent aboy 2hrs with search engines trying to find out how to do this.

[Anon]

Seems to me that it is not possible. I would be very interested to know whether one can achieve that.

Dieter

[Anon]

I would also like to know if anybody can do this.
Also about implementing an autologon cookie to go with it so that people with a choice have the possibility to enter straight away if necessary. I realise that this is quite risky but its not for me to choose

dev

[Anon]

please let me know if you figure out a way to do this, i cant do it.