Simple PASSWORD PROTECTION...how???

Anon

I'm new with PHP....this may be a lame question but I have to make a password protection to access certain pages on WWW serwice....
For example
userA may access page forA.html (or forA.php)

userB may access page forB.html (or forB.php)

and only this page......(one page for one user)

How to do it.... so that users can't access any other page...only the page they have password to.

THX a lot

Anon

1) Make the user log in. Store their name or whatever in the value of a cookie

2) include a file on each page that checks for the existence of the cookie and also checks for the value of the cookie.

3) if the value of the cookie != the value that page needs, then die("You are not authorized to view this page").

Anon

Best way to do it:
.htaccess
.htpasswd
(apache security)

Another way:

Call from your protected site:
<?
If ($REQUEST_METHOD==\"POST\") include \"auth.inc\";

$connect = DBoeffnen($db);

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Ausgabe</TITLE>
</HEAD>

auth.inc:

<?
Function no_authentification()
{
Header(\"WWW-authenticate: basic realm=MySQL-Admin\");
Header(\"HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized\");
echo \"<h1>Sie benötigen eine gültige Kennung.</h1>\";
exit;
}

If (!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER))
  {
  	no_authentification();
  }
Else
  {
  	If ($PHP_AUTH_USER != \"user\"
  			|| $PHP_AUTH_PW != \"password\")
  	  {
  	  	no_authentification();
  	  }
  }

Anon

If you are really stuck i have a javascript that will do the trick. you could always use a 3rd party password protection provider, i suggest http://www.fido7.com/free-cgi/auth/ do not use http://www.cgiforme.com as your password protection! it is not as surcure as it seems! ok please e-mail me if you want the script

take care now