use my own database to manage the users authentication???

[searain]

For example, I have web site such as

http://www.mysite.com/administration

Instead of using the .htaccess + htpasswd to do the administration folder's access authentication.

How could I use my own database, a list of users and passwords pair, to do the folder authentication. But the user and password are managed through my own database, not through htpasswd commands?

Thanks!

[TheDefender]

Welcome to the world of [man]session[/man]s... .htaccess really is the best method of locking down folders, but if you don't or can't use that, then sessions are your next bet...

[searain]

I want to use .htaccess but I want to use the database I created myself to manage the users and passwords.

If using session, how can I block the whole folder off? such as I am not just trying to block the access to php pages, I want to block all the files in the administration folder, such as pure html, gif, jpg files etc.

How the session would do that?

[TheDefender]

Ah, sorry. I see now what you are looking for. You reallly can't (that I know of) block off a folder's contents like that using php.

[travelbuff]

I think what you want is mod_auth_mysql:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1447/2/
http://www.cgi101.com/class/password/mod_auth_mysql.html

HTH,