Password protect each users folder

[pgfcs]

I need to write a script that creates a folder and password protects it for each user as they sign up. My users will be uploading files that other users are not permitted to access. I have tried .htaccess but I can not get it to use a unique user name and password for each folder.

If you know how to do this or if you know of a script that already exists please let me know.

[webdes03]

You could use MySQL to keep a user database. Then compare the name of the directory they are trying to access to their username... if they match, list out the contents of the directory, and if they don't match, echo out something like "You don't have access to these files".

I'm sure there's other ways to do it, but there's one.