Re: PHP Authentication

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:02:45 +1030, huntsman@www.nisu.flinders.edu.au (David Robley) wrote: >On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:29, Hippie wrote: >> I'm attempting authorise users from a MySQL database. The idea being, >> that upon access to the page they input their username and password >> and this is checked against a table from an SQL database. This page >> needs to be completely server independant which means that I can't >> make use of the $PHP_AUTH_USER as this relies on IIS or Apache to know >> how to authorise to my knowledge. >> >> If anyone has any ideas on how to accomplish this I would be more than >> interested to hear of them. Also, failing this being possible if I can >> resort to checking it against Radius instead of SQL so any ideas on >> that would be great as well. >> >> Hippie. > >The concept is simple - query the database for a record where username = >supplied value and password = supplied value: if you get a record >returned, you have a match and they can enter; if not, they aren't >allowed in. You may need to pass the authorisation aacross scripts - you >could use a cookie, hidden field, sessions.... > >-- >David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc >CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA > > Useless Invention: Combs for bald-heads. The problem is though, getting their input into a variable with which to query the SQL database. The querying itself I have no problems with but I cannot figure out how to pass their input into a variable.