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Oct 10.2007

Hi – just wondering if someone can explain a good way of doing this…

I have a folder of pdfs that I’d like to password protect. Obviously I could use .htaccess for this, but I’d like an growing number of passwords taken from a MySQL table to be used to access this folder. I’m wondering about developing a script for when a user registers, which adds a line into the .htaccess file that adds their password.

Is this be the best way of doing it, or are there far simpler ways of dynamically protecting a folder?

Thanks muchly for any help ?

Nick

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@scragarOct 10.2007 — you could put the files in a directory that's protected by htaccess that no-one gets the password to, then create a download.php file that check passwords against the DB, if success full it reads in the contents of the file specified in a querystring(eg: download.php?file=meap.pdf ) and after echoing headers prints the file contents for download.

I don't have time to go over this in full detail now, or produce a sample code, but if you read up on fopen, fread and the basic mysql functions from php.net you should get a good idea of what to do.
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@sloLearnerauthorOct 11.2007 — ? Scragar, thank you so so much for taking the time out to give that post - that's solved it for me! I hadn't thought of using header functions like that, and that'll work brilliantly.

Yours gratefully

Nick
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