SSL PHP DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon

ok..im extremely aggitated.. Ive been looking for over an hour on how to use SSL with PHP.. im creating a shopping cart and its all complete.. all I want to do now is once the user clicks purchase now.. it takes them securely to a form where they can enter in their billing details .. HOW DO I DO THIS?????? ive been looking for over an hour and I seriously havent found ONE BIT of information on how to do this other than use https:// .. i still dont know what else to do.. i dont use direct links in my coding.. someone PLEASE HELP ME!!!

tupawk

Using php with ssl is not going to be any different than using it on a non-secure web server. The SSL part of it is all handled by whatever secure web server you are using (Apache with mod_ssl is one example).

SSL's default port to run on is 443 so if you do not want to type https:// you could also try http://url:443.

I suggest you go read about what a secure web server is and how it uses ssl for the encryption layer. A good starting place is http://www.modssl.org

Anon

Correction, you can't use http://host.com:443, even though https runs on port 443. You need https://, otherwise the server will issue an error. You can, however, use https://host.com:443 , or a different port on wich SSL may be running.

Anon

relax. you can just force any page you want to load in ssl by testing if ssl is on and forcing a reload to https: if it isn't.

<?php
// this page always loads in ssl

if($SERVER_PORT != 80)
{header("Location: https://$HTTP_HOST$PHP_SELF");die;}

then you can just link to your secure form with a relative link and be assured it will load over ssl.