[Alan]

Hi.

I'm still relatively new to PHP and could use some help.

I'd like to write one PHP file which can only be viewed once a valid password has been entered, but I'm unsure of how to do so.

If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful.

Thanks.

[blaw]

Good morning,

It depends on several things, but there are more than one way to do it.

If there is (and will be) only one page, the page does not get reloaded often, and if you are still new to PHP, then you might as well authenticate the users every time the page is loaded, rather than using sessions and databases.

I am not going to list an entire code because I'm not sure whether you want that. But my tip is to use a file that contains password and is located outside the document root (for added security). Every time the page is loaded, check if the login info has been submitted by the user. If not, show the login form. If so, authenticate his/her password by matching it with the file that contains passwords. Only when there is a match, will you let him/her login.

Again, this is one very simple solution. You can go deeper, depending on how you want/need it.

Hope this gives you some idea. Good luck.

[darkcarnival]

i know of a very ez code but it would only require 1 password. but im guessing you want more than 1 which can be hard. jheres a link to how to make 1:

http://phpfreaks.com/tutorials/40/0.php it will also contain a zip file of what the tutorial covers

hopes this helps

[Alan]

Thank you for your tips.

As my PHP skills improve I will go further, but for now all I wanted was to try and get just one page protected by a password.

Your tips have helped and I think I know how I'm going to do this now.

Thanks a lot.