PHP and .htaccess

[splodge]

Hello,

I am building a website, part of which reuires user authentication. In
the past I have used PHP and MYSQL to do this, but I was wondering if
there is an easy wasy to use .htaccess. On the face of it this looks
simple but each page the site returns is user specific, so I need a way
of finding out which user logged in.

For example if John logged in he would see page A
If Suzy logged in she would see page B.

I am thinking that there might be something in the page headers that I
can get hold of, I'm just not sure what.

Any help greatly welcome.

Regards.

[Al]

Re: PHP and .htaccess

Try $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] maybe.
And $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] gets the password.

See http://uk.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php for full details.

[splodge]

Re: PHP and .htaccess

Al wrote:[color=blue]
> Try $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] maybe.
> And $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] gets the password.
>
> See http://uk.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php for full details.
>[/color]

Many thanks for that, all sorted now.

[Justin Koivisto]

Re: PHP and .htaccess

splodge wrote:[color=blue]
> Al wrote:[color=green]
>> Try $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] maybe.
>> And $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] gets the password.
>>
>> See http://uk.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php for full details.
>>[/color]
>
> Many thanks for that, all sorted now.[/color]

Also, for an implementation example, you can check out:

http://koivi.com/php-http-auth/

--
Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.co m

http://koivi.com

[Charlie King]

Re: PHP and .htaccess

On 12 Jan 2006 11:38:09 -0800, in
<1137094689.817 396.152580@z14g 2000cwz.googleg roups.com>
(comp.lang.php) "Al" <alexrussell101 @gmail.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Try $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] maybe.
> And $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] gets the password.
>
> See http://uk.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php for full details.[/color]


It's worth noting that those will only retrieve .htaccess USER and PW
if PHP running as an Apache module, and not if it's running as CGI.
--
Charlie