Re: Auth_HTTP, it's not authenticating...

Yup, encrypted it using md5() and dumped it in. At some point last night I did manage to get addUser() to add a user to the DB, so I now know that I am connected and have all of my DB information entered correctly. I wonder, is the rest of my little script written correctly to allow for a correct username/password combo to stop prompting me? Like I said in my first e-mail, I am very unfamiliar with this package. Thanks for the help, - Stan Alexander Czernay wrote:

Did you encrypt your passwords with MD5 in the database? Auth actually checks for the encrypted password, rather than the plaintext one. -- Alexander ________________________________ Alexander Czernay IT-Consulting & Media Development fon +49-40-41096742 fax +49-40-41096743 icq 4773650 alexander@czernay.com www.czernay.com _________________________________ Stan Lemon wrote:

I found those and unfortunatley still had the same problems. I also upgraded Auth tonight. (By the way the dns/dsn error is in the PEAR documentation) I'm clueless. Is there any way to get good errors from what's going on with the DB in this? - Stan Ian Leckie wrote:

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 02:03 PM, Stan Lemon wrote:

I am trying to use Auth_HTTP to authenticate a user before accessing content. I have a table in the db called scl_users with uid (varchar(32)) and password (varchar(32)). I use the following code: <?php //print md5("password"); //require_once "DB.php"; require_once "Auth_HTTP/Auth_HTTP.php"; $dsn = "mysql://....";

$options = array('table'         => 'scl_users',
                 'usernamecol'   => 'uid',
                 'passwordcol'   => 'pword',
//                 'cryptType'      =>    'md5',
                 'dns'           => $dsn,);

You have 2 errors in this code. 1: in the intro you claim that the password field is called 'password', but then you set $options['passwordcol'] to 'pword'. 2. you are setting $options['dns'] rather than $options['dsn']. If those errors are in your actual code, they would account for your problems.