Apache, PHP and HTTP Authentication

[Anon]

Not sure if anyone can help me, but I have installed PHP and Apache on my win xp computer and am having no problems there. However, i am trying to authenticate a user using http authentication and then use the username and password entered to log on to a database. The problem arises when I try to use the $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW variables; I keep getting the error message that there are no such variables, yet it IS authenticating me properly.

Is there a setting on Apache I need to change to be able to do this, or is it something in PHP?

[Anon]

I'd recommend using $SERVER["PHP_AUTH(USER/PW)"]. Since PHP4 has register_globals turned off by default, you can only access these variables from the $_SERVER array, unless you have register_globals turned on in php.ini. If you do have it turned on, then I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work.

[Anon]

Thanks a lot Ian.

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