Creating an .htaccess with PHP.

[andreash]

I need to create a secure section on my site for my customers and I was wondering how I could
create not the .htaccess file (that's easy) but the .htpwd file.

Creating the file itself is simple but I would like to add users and password automaticly to it.
How can I do this?

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Do it the same way you do it by hand, but make your PHP script use the "htpasswd" command.

Read about system() and exec() etc.

There are also plugins for webservers that can tap straight into a database to get authorization data.

[Anon]

for .htpasswd file syntax is easy :

each line is composed by two parts - user name and user password encrypted - with a : between them.

password could be encrypted by crypt() php function :

$enc_pass = crypt($pass_to_crypt);

which crypt the password in unix standard (DES if i can remeber). so a line should look like this:

admin:AFIBAIBSICN
jope:YCVY6VU8bfu

etc.

in your file