authentication

Hi all, Can anybody help me with this authentication problem? Clients can log in using a html form on my site. When they log in their username and password are checked in a mysql database. Then they are forwarded to a url, a directory on my site also coming from the db. This directory should not be public of couse, so I did a chmod 744 on the clients directory. Anybody has any ideas? I prefer not to use the standard window popup thing for authentication. I checked the php manual, but there is not much info on plain html forms on the subject, or maybe it is my English...:-) Regards, Wilbert ------------------------- Pas de Deux Van Mierisstraat 25 2526 NM Den Haag tel 070 4450855 fax 070 4450852 http://www.pdd.nl info@pdd.nl -------------------------