Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

Read this -- it got me well and truely pointed in the right direction http://zend.com/zend/trick/tricks-august-2001.php Justin On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 01:36 AM, Juan Nin wrote: I need to do the same and a .htacces file would not suite the problem I need to do as yahoogroups does When you

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

Maria Garcia Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm developing an application to which you can upload > files. Right now the destination folder of those files > is at /public_html/files which makes them visible from > the internet. > > I thought of putting that ./files/ folder outs

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

I need to do the same and a .htacces file would not suite the problem I need to do as yahoogroups does When you upload a file to the Files section, it send by default an e-mail to the group members with a link to the file When you click on the link, you're sent to a login page, and after login in

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

Petre Agenbag wrote: If you place files inside a webfolder, then they are publicly accessible, period. Not true. .htaccess turns a "public" directory into a "private" directory. Even if you know the path and filename you want, without an accepted username/password, you're not getting the file.

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

If you place files inside a webfolder, then they are publicly accessible, period. They might not be obvious, ie. you would have to guess that there are files in a specific folder AND know the exact name of the file, but if you do happen to guess correct, then the files are downloadable. There are

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

Place a .htaccess in the files directory denying all access to it, and also possibly redirecting them to a login page. However since your users should never know about the files/ directory there is no real point :) Then code a PHP script to serve the files just in the same way you would if they we