[magsec4]

hi, I was wondering if theres a way to make a simple login script, without using a database, just flat files. I was wondering if things like username, password and email could be stored in .txt files like username.txt or something and the login script could read from that.

Thankyou for your help, and if at all possible maybe show me the coding needed to read from a .txt file and actually use like the username and password to login.

Thankyou again,
Dan

[Submerge]

ahhh. I'm not sure but I am pretty new at PHP programming. I know counters read and write to text files. you cxould look into that. anyone else hve an answere?

[Infinite_Hackers]

ahh, you can make a login system...it's just not 100% safe :S very unsafe actually...

the way is by simply writing to a file and seperating them, so then you can select the line or w/e fromt he file, and check if the password is right... now..i don't think you would ever wanna do something like it, it's really unsafe... :S ( you could crypt it.. but still )

[nd2]

it's only unsafe if it's not set up correctly, as long as you keep the password file out of your main document root on your server and you have anoumouse ftp access turned off and you have a nice long criptic password protecting your ftp server it should be just as safe as a database.

[magsec4]

um... yeah so anyways, if i did want to do it at the risk of it being unsafe, can any1 plz post how to actually do this pleas?

[IWeb]

another way would be with .htaccess, then write a PHP login function that queries the htaccess/htpwd files.