Password protecting scripts...

[Yellow_Dart]

Hi, normally when i want to password protect one of my scripts, i have a .html page with a input box where you type the password and hit submit, and in the script that handles the form, i do this:

If ($password == "mypassword") {
//run the script
} Else {
print ("Wrong password");
}

Is there anything wrong with doing it like this? Should i be using ssl or encrypting the password or something?

Thanks for any tips & advice 🙂

[Yellow_Dart]

Anyone? 😕

[benbox]

hi,

it depends what you are doing it for.. I mean that will do the job fine, if its just you who wants to protect a single file.. but if you had many users or wanted to protect a group of files then there are better ways of doing it..

[Yellow_Dart]

Alright 🙂 Could someone please point me in the right dirrection to start learning the other ways to do it? Thanks. 🙂

[djcomplex]

You could store a username and password in a database and check the users info against that, google for "mysql php login system" summit like that.

or you could use a htaccess file to protect the directory, have a read up on them see which one would suite you