password protect multiple folders simple

8ball

I need some help. I wanna set up a page for my parents so they can share pictures of their work. They basically want two things:

They want a different password for every folder
They want it really simple

So here is what I was thinking. I install phpMyPhotos on a server and show them how to use ftp. I am sure they can do that, the rest is easy. I have no clue how to do the password thing though. How is there a simple way for them to assign passwords for different folders? Maybe even through ftp?
I cant teach them how to write .htpaccess files 🙁 so that’s not an option. A script doing that could be one ;-)

PS.: I rather would not like to install something server demanding like ‘gallery’

Rodney_H_

Here is the simplest way that I could think using php and hardcoding a username and password onthe INDEX.php of each folder:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
// if form not submitted, display form:
if(!isset($_POST['submit'])){
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="text" name="user" value="" size="30" /> username
<br />
<input type="text" name="pass" value="" size="30" /> password
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
<?php
}
// else process form:
else {
    if (empty($_POST['user']) || empty($_POST['pass'])){
        $message = '<h3>Oops!</h3>' . "\n";
		$message .= '<p>You did not enter login info.</p>' . "\n";
        $message .= '<p>Please go back and try again.</p>' . "\n";
        echo $message;
        exit;
    }
    else {
		// define a username and password
		$username = 'rubber';
		$password = 'ducky';
		// trim and reduce to lower case letters
        $user = strtolower(trim($_POST['user']));
        $pass = strtolower(trim($_POST['pass']));
		if($user != $username || $pass != $password){
			$message = '<h2>No Way, Jose!</h2>' . "\n";
			$message .= '<p>Username or password incorrect.</p>' . "\n";
			$message .= '<p>Please go back and try again.</p>' . "\n";
			echo $message;
			exit;
		}
		// else display page
		else {
			echo 'here is our picture info...';
		}
	}
}
?>

</body>
</html>

NOTE: username and password can be different on each page (index.php) you make.

adan

that script is simple... it's great... but how to use for multiple user, and can we use external .txt to store the username and password?

Rodney_H_

adan wrote:
that script is simple... it's great... but how to use for multiple user, and can we use external .txt to store the username and password?

The script as it stands only has one hard coded username and password per page. So, no, as it is, it will not differentiate between user "A" and user "B" and user "C" (if that is what you meant by multiple user).

However, if you want different users to have different usernames and passwords, then your second idea, to store the paired values into a .txt file would work just fine without too much additional work...

8ball

Thank you Rodney, this is really simple and very close to what I wanted. But is there an easier way to include many folders rather than writing a index.php for every single one.
Could I include a list that just compares a folder name with a corresponding password?