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Password protection

hey..

I am developing a web application and need it to protected by passwords. I was wondering if there was any way in which the users could create and save their own passwords ?

The other problem that i am thinking about it is... if the password protects www.my.com/index and when entered correctly takes the users to www.my.com/index1... is there any way that when the user types www.my.com/index1 manually in the address bar it will ask him for the password...

thnks for all the help in advance..
AJ

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yes this is possible.

you can use .htaccess and .htpassword, but this is harder to let the users create their own password. (don't know what the effect is of a password protected area when users can create their own pass...)

or you can use a PHP script for this

short explanation of the PHP script:

create a login form, and call this script: (be sure the username and password fields are called: username / password)

<?

$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];

//build query
$query = "SELECT * FROM users
WHERE username='{$username}'
AND password='{$password}'";
//execute query
$result = mysql_query($query);

//check if there are results
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0){
$_SESSION['username'] = $username
header("Location: index1.php");
} else {
die("Sorry, no login details found");
}
?>

the on top of every page:

<?
if(!isset($_SESSION['username'])){
header("Location: loginform.php");
}
elseif(empty($_SESSION['username'])){
header("Location: loginform.php");
}
?>

something like this??...

achaljalan

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The server i am using is the websphere application server and have full access to it...

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no objections... author gave no more comments so think it is solved.