Hello,

I have installed the cookie password protection script in order to protect my blog. After modifying the settings.php file and included the line

<? include("protection.php"); ?>

at the beginning of my blog's skin.

I experience a strange behaviour:

1. First of all, the login form is displayed over the protected page (the protected page is visible)
2. There is no Submit or Login button. The message "Never link directly to this file, always link to the protected file!" is displayed.

See http://www.un-moment-a-partager.fr for details. (please use firefox; there are some errors when using Internet Explorer).

Thanks,
Doru

The script wasn't actually created to be installed in a template so we've never tried to install it in a blog template before. The script is made to protect the actual PHP file and not the template files.

Yours,
Andreas

If you want to protect a blog or any kind of site using a template system, you'd best create your own script so you can work around your site's design.
You can set up a database for usernames and passwords for each user, or if you want just one common login ID for everyone you can just include it in a file like in Cookie Password Protection. Then if you can use $_POST to see if what the enter used in the form matches the database/entry in the file and if so you can use something like session_register to create a session. Then in you common header file you can create an if statement that if(!session_is_registered(***)) you can use the header() location function to redirect them to the login page.