[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-18 Thread Guru P Chaturvedi
Hi, What if the user tries to download the file thru DAP or any other download tool? Can we restric even that...? Regards, Guru. === "Cristian Marin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think you want the user to browse thru the directories

[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-18 Thread Cristian MARIN
I think you want the user to browse thru the directories and download a file. In this case the only way I see this resolving is to make your own index list of files. You can create a index.php in every directory the user can see in which you can do something like: .." for ($i=0; $i".$files[$i].""

[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-17 Thread Neil Smith
Well what I would probably do is this : Store the users authenticated directory name in a session from the login form. Add a mod_rewrite directive to the top level users directory which redirects to a PHP script on attempted direct access to the specified directories. Use this PHP script to de

[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-17 Thread Guru P Chaturvedi
Hi Cristian, Well what wanted to tell u is all the files that i wanna secure are kind of Word Documents, PDFs, .EXEs which users can access. If i use .htaccess files it works fine. But i want to provide a HTML login form. can u now explain me how i can go about... ? Regards, Guru. "Cristian Ma

[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-17 Thread Cristian MARIN
Create the authentication form which submit the page to a php ... there you verify first if the user and password are ok then you make something like this: if ($username='ok' && $password='ok') session_start(); session_register('username'); session_register('id_user'); } after this in

[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-17 Thread Guru P Chaturvedi
Hi Neil, Well is it basically to collect user name and password from user? What actually i am looking for is skipping this screen and having the same functionality thru a HTML form. Lemme explain you in details... I have a set of files protected using the Auth Directives. So user's need to provid

[PHP-WIN] Re: Subject: Re: User Authentication...

2003-06-16 Thread Neil Smith
Try this. Please note that on windows you *cannot* raise a http auth box this way (PHP_AUTH_USER is not defined for Apache on windows), so you will need to use this on your live unix Apache/PHP server : function getUserAuthPW() { // If present, set user Authenticate Password box values