.htaccess

[viveleroi0]

What kind of coding would I use to make a php script interact with a .htaccess password file? Would it be a regular fopen kind of a thing, or would I need some special coding to read the password, and allow the user to enter their info once, and continue to be logged in until they quit their browser?

[gljaber]

the .htacces file is nothing to do with PHP. It is the Apache web server that uses this file, and it uses it to decide access rights to files in the directory it is in.
Your PHP files will not be parsed until Apache decides that the client is correctly authenticated and is allowed to continue.

If you want to use PHP to authenticate, then you should look into using headers and the PHP Header command.

HTH (and that I'm not talking crap!)

glj

[rrijnders]

Are you saying that you want to write a PHP script that maintains the entries in an .htaccess file so that the script can control directory security?

[viveleroi0]

that too. I want a php script that could interact with the htaccess file, thus allowing people to login by using the php script which will login using the htaccess file, and also add or delete information from the htaccess file.

[rrijnders]

I don't know what you mean when you say you want the PHP script to "interact" with the htaccess file. An .htaccess file is just a text file with security directives in it. These directives are interpreted by the Apache web server that controls directory security.

You can write a script that can manipulate the text directives in this file, but I am not sure whether Apache would have to be restarted each time for those directives to take effect.

Also, htaccess is worthless without the corresponding information being blaced into the htpasswd file. You can't (well, maybe you can but you shouldn't) write a script that can manipulate encrypted user and password information in the password file. This is because your script is running as NOBODY (at least it better be) and the password files are owned by ROOT.

-- Rich