RE: [PHP] PHP Authentication

use a standard form... <form method=post action=...> <input type=text name=username> <input type=password name=password> <form> and in your php code, use, $username and $password -----Original Message----- From: johnnews@cci.net.au [mailto:johnnews@cci.net.au] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:23 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] 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. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net