PHP and htpasswd?

[Morbius]

I'm working on a small subscription site using Verotel.

I setup their perl script and it seems to work using their test feature.

My problem is I don't have a way to login to the protected folder. Using their htaccess code doesn't pop-up a login window for me. So I just get a 403.

Besides I rather have an HTML login then a crude pop-up. I've spent a couple days looking for a script that would work with the Verotel system with no luck.

I would be posting this on the Verotel forum, but it seems to be down.

So I was hoping maybe someone here could lend some advice.

It seems the way their system works is they use a perl script on my server to write to the htpasswd file. But they didn't give me good instructions for how to setup the login part of this.

This is all they gave me for the htaccess file in the protected dir:

AuthUserFile /full/path/to/your_data_dir/.htpasswd
AuthName MEMBERS
AuthType Basic

<IfModule mod_access.c>
    <Files *>
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny From All
    </Files>
    <Files ~ "^\.ht">
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny From All
    </Files>
</IfModule>

I know how to code in PHP, but I don't really know how I can connect that to the htaccess/htpasswd system that Veretol has.

Any advice would would be great.

Thanks