Re: authentication

hi! I ever solve this problem with sessions... when a user does the login, I have session_start(); session_register("allowed"); $allowed = true; and on the top of all the other sites, where just "special" users are allowed to go in, there is a include ("checkAllowed.php"); checkAllowed.php just contains: if (!$allowed) die ("Access denied"); I hope I could help you... if so - or if you have got questions, please feel free to email me! yours, gert mellak ================== eMail: gert@mellak.com http://www.mellak.com Wilbert Enserink <wilbert@pdd.nl> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 006601c12ef5$aff7c380$0301a8c0@168.1.1... 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 -------------------------