It is quite common to have the need to password protect a certain file or a set of files, in order to prevent unauthorized access to those files. There are many different alternatives on how to do this including, sessions, cookies, JavaScript and HTTP authentication. Peter shows you how to implement simple HTTP authentication.
This tutorial shows you how to create a Membership System from scratch using PHP and MySQL. The System also allows an admin to enable User Access Expiration and gives you an insight on Basic Member Management (Add/Edit/Delete Users).
This step-by-step guide presents a free cut-and-paste example code of a username and password login web based system. Developed using PHP, MySQL and JavaScript.Updated to include improved security (PHP HTTP_POST_VARS).
So now that your web site is up and running, you're interested in giving your users' the ability to login to their own personalized account with a membership system unique to your web site. Well guess what? The process isn't really that difficult, and if you just follow along with this tutorial, you can figure out how to design one yourself.
This is a short tutorial that explains how you can protect a web page from users. The code in this tutorial is only about 5 lines long, and will protect any PHP page. HTTP Authentication involves the browser displaying a window for the user to log in, once the user logs in the page is displayed. If the user fails to log in, a failure notice is displayed.
A tutorial that shows you how to create a moderately secure page that only users can view. No database required!You create/remove the users manually with passwords as well.
Simple PHP based webpage protection will protect one page and is ideal for setup scripts and admin pages. Configuration is done on one file and setup is less than a minute. Easy to use.