protecting online pages

[sol2x]

Hi,

I need some help...I created a site for a client that has a password protected area. I need to make that area inaccessible to those trying to get it directly by typing in the URL (perhaps a You Don'T have Permission to View This Page or somethhing like that. I have very little programming experience...thanks for any and all help!

Rich

[devinemke]

if you are using Apache then use htaccess password protection

[qadeer_ahmad]

If ur Authenticating ur user by user name and password then u can use a another way.

When some user Authenticate then create session value like this
<?
$_SESSION["type"]="login";
?>

and all ur PHP pages in start use this script

<?
session_start()
$type=$_SESSION["type"];
if ($type!="login")
{
header("location: www.yourdomain.com/login.php");
}
?>

so no body can access ur page.... with out login..