Closing Time - PHP

Want to restrict access to certain sections of your Web site?Or customize page content on the basis of user preferences? Or eventrack user movement across your site? Well, the bad news is that you'llneed to learn how to authenticate users on your site. The good news isthat this tutorial has everything you need to get started.

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By: The Disenchanted Developer, (c) Melonfire

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March 13, 2002

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And that's about it from me. If you'd like to read more about the techniques and functions discussed in this article, the following links are well worth a looksee:

User authentication with Apache, at http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/96-10-18#userauth

The Apache manual page on authentication, at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

The PHP manual page on session functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

Zend.com's article on user authentication with PHP, at http://zend.com/zend/tut/authentication.php

Till next time...stay healthy! Note: All examples in this article have been tested on Linux/i586 with Apache 1.3.20 and PHP 4.1.1. Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or support for the source code described in this article. YMMV!