password protecting pdf docs?

[Anon]

i have a database holding subscribers with password information.

php password protection page is following this rule

subscribers sign in and password matched,

$ismember=1;

if ($ismember==1)
{
...
}
else
{
redirect to sign in page
}

but how can i protect pdf document? or doc document? or other downloadable files?

thanks

hui

[pnoeric]

broadly speaking: put the files in a directory that the web server can't access. then serve them via php only if the user ismember.

eric

[Anon]

how to serve them via php?

Eric Mueller wrote:

broadly speaking: put the files in a directory that the web server can't access. then serve them via php only if the user ismember.

eric

[knight]

Searain you can use PHP based .htpassword/MySQL authentication which would be used to determine if the user existed, if so then the built in PHP PDF support would be used to display the PDFs. If the account was not valid they would simply be redirected to another page. However to do this your PHP must be compiled with pdflib support. If you wish you can contact me and I could give you example code that would give a general idea of how this would work since it is fairly easy to do in my view.

• Phil Brault
  Information Technology Specialist
  Web Applications Developer
  http://www.scriptparadise.net

[pnoeric]

Phil - doesn't that also require an apache module to handle .htpassword-based authentication with MySQL? .htpasswd stuff is completley outside of the scope of PHP, isn't it?

best
eric

[knight]

Actually Eric it doesn't php has the ability to parse the files and decrypt the htpasswd files since it usually is compiled with crypt support as it is. Zend wrote a tutorial on it infact:

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/authentication.php#Heading15

I totally had forgotten about this post till now though :\

• Phil Brault
  Information Technology Specialist
  Web Applications Developer
  http://www.scriptparadise.net