Re: user authentification - user must insert his logindata twice

This is not the right list for this kind of support. Please ask in php-general mailling list. Nuno ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hübner" <michael.huebner@nogstyle.de> To: <phpdoc@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: [PHP-DOC] user authentification - user must insert his logindata twice > Hallo, > > Hope somebody can help me. > > I'm working on Linux, Apache. > > On my start-site the user can log in via inserting Username and Password > into normal formfields, which are compared with a DB. > > After this login, he can change to his own user-directory which is .htpasswd > and .htaccess protected. Thats the reson he has to insert his Username and > Password again ;( > > My Question: > > Is there a way, so the user has to insert his data only once? > > I've also tried it by doing a authentification like this too: > > <?php > if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) { > Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"My Realm\""); > Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized"); > echo "Text to send if user hits Cancel button\n"; > exit; > } else { > echo "Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}"; > echo "<p>You entered {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']} as your > password.</p>"; > } > ?>but it doesn't work for me, because when switching to the userdirs, the > .htaccess authentification window pops up again (it is the same pwd and uid > in the DB and the .htpasswd) ;( > > Thank you in advance, > > Michael