passing variables across .htaccess

[rohmer]

I have some files in a directory protected by .htaccess and would like to use PHP to log accesses to this directory.

Does anybody know of a way to pass the user name entered in .htaccess's pop-up box as a variable for use in subsequent pages?
I suppose an alternative would be somehow to send these values to the box, perhaps as url-encoded, but I can't see how to do this.

[danzene]

read this
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/features.http-auth.php

[rohmer]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I've looked at the article and there's certainly food for thought; in the meantime I discovered an environment variable that does exactly what I need.
$username = getenv("REMOTE_USER");
gives me the user name, and together with a time function I have a line I can append to the log file. Very short code and (for the moment) I can keep the .htaccess system I already have in place.