Re: Pear Auth Class (Newbie)

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:42:58 -0000, Simon Hamilton wrote: >One issue I have is that your getting the file info from >$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF'] as a column header. I would most likely prefer >to hard code a variable/pageID into each content page, where $pageID = >"ColumnName" in Permissions table. This way I can safely use a database >driven website. Would there be any problems with this method you could >foresee? Nope, I don't see a problem here. >Currently I'm having trouble just getting Auth to work, before I even try to >get your hack in there. For some reason (I'm running Win2k/Apache/PHP/MySQL >BTW), the database call will only work when I set the DSN to user=root with >no password. I have setup other users WITH passwords in the USERS table of >the MySQL DB, but they just don't work. Do you know if there's anything else >I need to do to MySQL to get other users to work? Did you restart your MySQL server after adding the users? >Now, even tho I can make the call with the DB "root" user, I'm not getting >access...keep getting "Wrong login data!" above the login fields in the >form, and I know its right. Have you any ideas why this problem would occur >(I know its a bit vague). The only thing I can think of is maybe the use of >crypt/MD5. You have to use md5() to "crypt" the passwords that are stored in the auth table. Did you do so? >BTW, I replied to your email privately first, but have had no reply as >yet....maybe its not the done thing! Well, actually I was out for party 'til this morning and so I did not have the time to reply to your mail ;-). - Martin -- Martin Jansen, <mail@martin-jansen.de> http://www.martin-jansen.de/