I downloaded this file and uploaded it to a site...it comes up nicely but after entering user name and password, it won't go to the specified link. It's an HTML file. Does the HTML have to reside in the php directory...just a shot in the dark.

Thank you for all of your help on this.

con

The password protection script was replaced in 2001 by Cookie Password Protection because it works much better than the old password protection script. I suggest you download the free version of CPP and give it a try.

Thank you for answering.

A quick question before I download the other one...sorry if the question has an obvious answer...do the linked files have to be .php files? Or can they be .html files?

And if both are possible, what piece of code would go into the .html pages?

Such as this one for the .php...



????

Thanks

C

If your files are .html files you can protect them in the same way as .php files by simply renaming the files to something.php. Then you use the same code as you protect all your other .php files.

So the answer is yes, they have to be .php. Got it.

I downloaded the "newer" version but honestly, I like the password.php better. It's so much simpler. I don't really want a log-in page...the pop-up dialogue box is much more to my liking. Isn't there a way to tweak that so the linking to pages works?


Thanks,

C

At this point, since I haven't heard anything back, I uploaded the one you recommended. It works except for the changes to the login page I made. Even after overwriting the one you have provided, it defaults to the simple white bckgd with the two boxes for name and password.

Why is that? What am I forgetting?

Thanks,

C

Okay, I fixed the above...forget that.

My big question is now...how can I get each user name w/ associated password to link to different file????

Again, thank you for any and all help.

C

Please take a look at the following posts:
http://www.xavierforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4044
http://www.xavierforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4059
http://www.xavierforum.com/archive/7_1519.php

Okay. I have studied the links you sent along for this issue...each user name/passowrd goes to a different page....and unfortunately, I'm still confused.

This code:

goes on each protected page? The settings.php doesn't change?

What I would like is: after username and password are entered from the login page, to go to their corresponding page.

How do I do that?

Thanks,

Con

Use the code you included in your post.

Sorry about my ignorance in these matters but...do I change the username in the above code, to the real username...like user1...in both lines?

Thanks

sorry...I meant loginname for username...

You don't have to do anything. When a user logs in with for example goofy as login name the file goofy.php will show up, but the user will not see goofy.php in the web browser.

I just tried that and it just goes to the clients_lounge.php I initially created for all three username/passwords.

One of the usrname/passw is gary/drivingforce. For that one, I created a gary.php page.

In the settings.php I have
$PHP_SELF = "/php/clients_lounge.php";

Do I have to change that too?

Thanks

If you are on a real server (read Unix/Linux) then you should remove the line with $PHP_SELF. That line should only be used on Windows servers that don't work as they should.

When gary login at clients_lounge.php he will see the content of gary.php if you did everything correct. In the URL field of his web browser he will still see clients_lounge.php.