I am not trying to authenticate off of a database though. I have scripts that automatically modify the .htaccess file as I change a user, so I need to authenticate off the .htaccess file and store the users information into a cookie. I think from the cookie I can do everything else, just not sure how to get the information from the browser to show me the user of the page.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:53 AM
To: Robert Sossomon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Authentication
--- Robert Sossomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I currently use a .htaccess file for users to login, and now I need to
make some changes to how the site works.
I need to be able to have the users login, and once that is done the login needs to be used to pass through the database.
Search PEAR (http://pear.php.net/), because I'm pretty sure there are aome authentication classes that let you use a database to store the access credentials.
Hope that helps.
Chris
===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/
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Well, you could use PEAR::Auth to do these things without having to write to a .htaccess file (That's a potential security risk).
Then answer to your question is $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']. That variable will give you the currently logged in user. $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] is the password.
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