interact with .htaccess

Hi People That is a very good idea, i was thinking about using something similar on a file sharing area... But James, do you know how can we use this to build pages.... i mean include images on a html pages on a restricted way kind like <image="/somewhere/mysecretfile.jpg"> Do you know how i can safely restrict file acess and still link this files into a html page, this would for example allow showing a album of photos to some users but not all site users. By the way i'm building a new personal web page and will share the code in a open source i think it would be good for newbies like me Thankx any way Miguel From: James Hicks <freedomadvocate@cox.net> To: " Peter Berglund" <peter_b@telia.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:55:33 -0400 CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: interact with .htaccess I think what you really want to do is place your downloadable files in a directory that is not in your httpd's document root and use a password protected PHP script to access these files and send them to the user after authentication. I think you could accomplish this with the fpassthru() function and the correct header. htaccess is just going to get in your way. <? include("authentication.php"); $filename="/path/to/directory/not/in/httpd/doc/root/mysecretpicture.jpg"; $fp=fopen($filename, "rb"); header( "Content-type: image/jpeg\nContent-Disposition: inline; filename=\"mypic.jpg\"\nContent-length: ".(string)(filesize($filename)) ); fpassthru($fp); ?>