Check Apache passwords from PHP

[Anon]

I have some files with list of users and encrypted passwords (standart Apache file for htaccess realisation with htpasswd.exe utility). How i can compare inserted password( inserted in HTML-form, as example) with password written in my file ???
In Apache-docs i read about "Apache-modified MD5 algoritm", but i can't process my passwords for comparision !!!

[Anon]

htaccess/htpasswd files? Ick! These are a pill to manage on anything more than a very small scale.

See:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php

Interesting note is that I've done interesting things with these techniques in conjunction with the mod_mysql_auth and mod_pgsql_auth apache modules.