Password Protecting HTML documents

[maxsslade]

Hi,
I am running an apache PHP 4 server on windows and i would like to protect certain pages with a password. The password would be entered from an HTML document, e.g.

<form action="pwordpro.php">
Username: <input type="text" name="user">
Password: <input type="password" name="pword">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Would i be able to have multiple users logging in with different usernames and passwords?

If so how would i be able to update this?

Using MySQL?

After a correct logging in i would like it to redirect you to an HTML document named 'indexuser.html' and after an incorrect login i would like it to redirect to a page named 'badlogin.html'

I would be greatful if you could get back to me A.S.A.P

By the way if you are thinking why i am such a novice, it is because i am only 15! Try my website out at: http://www.urbaninfluence.f2s.com

Thankyou,
Max Slade

[synthetic]

Here is what i did,

Have the user login to your page, have a data base of users, username , pw ,id etc..

Check the submitted pw/un against your database.

if the pw/un is ok set a cookie with a 10+ digit random number and the user id. Store the random number in the user data base and just check the cookie before your page loads. If key and user id match then load the page. If not just re-direct the user to another page. If you need progamming examples just email me

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[Anon]

Sessions are perfectly suited for this as well and are less likely to be spoofed using argument variables passed in the URL. Using sessions will eliminate the need to use the database to store the random number you are talking about.

A cookie, on the other hand, is a good way to remember the UID and PW for the user. The only bad thing about using cookies exclusively is that any user who walks up to that computer will have full access to whatever you are trying to protect.

Even though my users complain daily about having to type their passwords in every time, I still do not use stored cookies.

Thanks to Micro$oft's brain child called IE 5, that all goes out the window because the browser remembers their passwords for them. Thank you Mr Gates, may I have another?

[Anon]

Can anyone tell me where I can find a good tutorial on how to do the same thing pretty much step by step. I'm very new to php and was told that php is the best way to do this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Scott