Password Protected web pages

[Liam7444]

I have recently built a web page but i need a member only area , so i need to password protect the pages how do i do this

if anyone knows plz tell me i have bee really getting angry with my comp because it doesent work!!!

if u have any good web sites plz post them

thank - u

[scoppc]

what I used to do is that i will provide a special login form for my member. Username and password are required.
They have been previously stored in my database, of course.

Upon the successful of login process (both username and password are valid), I'll set a cookie which contains the username and encrypted form of username+password.

In the beginning of each page in member area, I'll have a script to check whether or not a user has logged in.
If yes, then let them in. Otherwise, send them an error message.

One related article to this can be found at
webmasterbase.com

[Liam7444]

the thing is i dont know how to use cookies!

[scoppc]

The following syntax is how you set cookie:

setCookie("username",$logUser,time()+3600);

Make sure you have some value for $logUser.
You can get the cookie value by using $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['username'] in another page.
Time()+3600 will set the time for cookie to expire, in this case 1 hour.

Read some articles bout this. Use search engine to find.

[Liam7444]

so could u do me a big favour

write me the code for a multiple user password protection

making the bits i need to add (the usernames and passwords) in red

if u do this i will really appreciate it plz plz

thank u so much!

[siwis]

Errm, I think most people here would agree to troubleshoot code you actually go to the trouble of writing yourself, or help you with problems you are experiencing, but to ask out and out for someone to write stuff from scratch for you is expecting just a little too much.

There are plenty of tutorials around on various websites. It takes but a little effort on your part to do some research first and then resort back here IF what you create doesn't work. Quite why you feel that we have got time to write all your codes for you I haven't got a clue.

[jerdo]

To password protect files use an .htacces file and an .htpasswd file in Apache. For help on using these you can go to http://httpd.apache.org and go to documentation.

[Lamont]

Go to hotfiles.com and look for a script called 'authorizer'. I've been using it and it works great. It gives different levels of access and is easy to use.

[Namadoor]

You can also hard code the password into the script, if all you want is a password (only one password). This is normally not a good idea, but if you are doing just to keep normal people out, it should work. Not the most secure option though...

To do that, just make it run a program after the password is typed to something like this:

if ($password == something) {
//The user has entered the correct password
//Put password protected stuff here
}
else {
//The wrong password has been entered
echo "you have entered the wrong password.";
}

Or something like that.

[Liam7444]

all i am aking is a very simle code for a multi user group and i have spent 7 hours looking for help but i just dont get what most sites are on about i am using geocities as my server is there anyone who can truly help me ??!

my e-mail is [e-mail]

i am quiet new to java nd html i normall use visual basic

plz help me plz!!!

thank you!

[scoppc]

Well, if what you've got now is a FREE geocities server, you will not be able to code anything. What you can have is ONLY HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, etc. But NOT server side scripting like PHP.

There are thousands of tutorial out there. I myself started to create my login script based on one tutorial which I found after searching. You should be able to do that, also.

[Liam7444]

You can use html on geocities it just i keep trying to design code but i keep failing and all the tuturials i found scare me with big words!!!

plz help me!🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

[dharvey]

as was posted, geocities does not support php, the only was to make a password accesed page on geo is through javascript, which is far from secure

i recomend u either pay for a host and use httaccess, or try brinkster, which supports asp

[Liam7444]

my page does not need to be secure just to keep amitures out so java script will do fine !!! :eek:

if anyone has any tuturiols or help for me plz reply here or e-mail
[e-mail]

thank you

[siwis]

This should be a reasonable place to start:
securing a website using javascript

Funnily enough its what most of us probably use quite a lot!
:rolleyes:
:rolleyes: