Authenticate

[leena]

Hi Everyone,

What I want to do, is that if I click a link from one page, it will open a new window, and run another script. This other script requires a username and password. I want to pass this username and password to the other browser.

I could probably use a form and pass "$PHP_AUTH_USER" and "$PHP_AUTH_PW" to that other page, but the next link I click on will ask me for the username and password again. I guess it is because it isn't actually assigning the username and password to those browser variables $PHP_AUTH_PW and $PHP_AUTH_USER?

Here's the vision of what I want to happen:
If I am an administrator, I can login to an admin section, then in that admin section there are links to each customer section (that requires username and password). That customer section link should open in a new window with my customers username and password already in there. The administrator does not want to have to memorize the username and password for each customer in order to access their information.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

[sarahk]

when the user has entered their info, clicked login and the check is done a page is generally returned.

that page needs to have some javascript to do something like:

window.opener.MyForm.loggedin.value = "Yes";

the window.opener just calls the window which "opened" the popup and passes info. What it does then is up to you, my example updates an imaginary form. It could also pass back a session id or something like that.

[leena]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I tried playing around with your idea but I must not totally understand it.

I am using the PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW to login, and every page past that point still checks for PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW before displaying the next page.

Is there a way to assign the PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW to something without using that login screen first?

It works fine as long as I actually type in the username and password first, because then every other page is just using that same username and password stored in PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW. However, I want to store values in the PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW without typing into the login box.

Do you know if that is possible? If not could you please explain your method, and does your method even use PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW?

Thank you for your time and help,

Sincerely,
Lena

[sarahk]

sorry, I thought you wanted to replace the $PHP_AUTH_USER stuff with a custom method.

[leena]

Hi again,

Nope. Thanks though. I actually came up with a different solution though.

Thanks for your help though.