Re: related to my .htgroup question...

> Ok, so I want to be able to do some things with php. > 1) add a user to the .htpasswd file > I know I can use exec() to run commands on the server. The problem here is > that when I do "htpasswd .htpasswd username" I get prompted for passwords > twice. How the heck can I do that with php? Will this work (I just thought Normally, you could exec("echo $password\n$password\n | htpasswd .htpasswd username); But, not only does htpasswd require input, it requires that you be on a TTY (ie, a real login) not just PHP. This is just plain not going to work unless you munge the file by hand. > of this right now...): > exec("htpasswd& .htpasswd username"); > exec("password"); > exec("password"); > If this works, that would be great. I would assume that after this, the > program stops and I don't have something running in the background. > > 2&3)edit the .htgroup and .htaccess files > I have no idea how to do this at all whatsoever. I don't want the person > running this script to have to see or touch the file at all, but I'm > thinking that I'm going to have to, like, read the file into a textarea and > make the user edit it and then save it again. That's going to be a pain in > the butt when the user is office personnel that doesn't know this stuff from > french. > > Throughtout this all, I don't want any output. I just want the scripts to > run and then redirect back to the page it was submitted from. Whew...any > ideas? I'm not going to have to learn perl just for this am I? ;^) Not sure Perl is going to be any better at this. Sounds to me like you should *not* be using .htaccess if you need this much flexibility. Look into mod_auth_mysql or using PHP to send the authentication headers. -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm