Re: authentication

Hi Wilbert, what I have done in the past (probably not the best way) is to stick a function call in the top of all pages in that directory which calls a function that checks for a cookie to see that the person viewing has actually logged in. I hope that helps. Abe On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Wilbert Enserink wrote: > 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 > -------------------------