$PHP_AUTH_USER

[Anon]

i want my script to auth users, it's a back end script 🙂

i suppose i could do it whereby i just send out some text inputs but i want to pursue this method anyway.

firstly i was using:

if (!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) {
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="News Administration"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
echo 'Authorization Required.';
exit;
}elseif{
#blah!
}

but apache didn't like this (malformed header according to the error log though i see nothing wrong with it)

so then i decided to use .htaccess files.

i've now got this working but the auth compares the passwords as plain text, which i don't really want... how can i sort this in apache?

lastly...
now $PHP_AUTH_USER doesn't work as i'm not using php to call the login screen (i guess), how can i get the username of the person logged in?
as i'm using .htaccess files $PHP_AUTH_USER doesn't work..

[daarius]

$PHP_AUTH_USER will not work if you dont have PHP running as apache module. you must be running php in CGI mode. please change it to apache module.

also, if you are on windows, then thats why php_auth_user or .htaccess will compare the password in text format. but i am not sure how to get encrypted passwd working on the windows platform.