[PHP] interact with .htaccess

[Miguel Angelo]

Hi People

That is a very good idea, i was thinking about using something similar on a 
file sharing area...

But James, do you know how can we use this to build pages
i mean include images on a html pages on a restricted way

kind like

image=/somewhere/mysecretfile.jpg

Do you know how i can safely restrict file acess and still link this files 
into a html page,  this would for example allow showing a album of photos to 
some users but not all site users.

By the way i'm building a new personal web page and will share the code in a 
open source i think it would be good for newbies like me

Thankx any way
Miguel



From: James Hicks  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:   Peter Berglund  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:55:33 -0400
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: interact with .htaccess  
I think what you really want to do is place your downloadable files in a 
directory that is not in your httpd's document root and use a password 
protected PHP script to access these files and send them to the user after 
authentication. I think you could accomplish this with the fpassthru() 
function and the correct header. htaccess is just going to get in your way.

?
include(authentication.php);
$filename=/path/to/directory/not/in/httpd/doc/root/mysecretpicture.jpg;
$fp=fopen($filename,  rb); 
header(  Content-type: image/jpeg\nContent-Disposition: inline; 
filename=\mypic.jpg\\nContent-length:  .(string)(filesize($filename)) ); 
fpassthru($fp); 
? 




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[PHP] interact with .htaccess

[Peter Berglund]

I want to send user and password from php to a protected directory.
For example: If I go directly to the directory I get a popup to enter user
and password, the normallt way.

But if I go through a php-script that checks if I'm a valid user from a
database I will get access to the folder.

So i need a way to send user/password from php to the .htaccess file.



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Re: [PHP] interact with .htaccess

[Ernest E Vogelsinger]

At 12:28 15.06.2003, Peter Berglund said:
[snip]
I want to send user and password from php to a protected directory.
For example: If I go directly to the directory I get a popup to enter user
and password, the normallt way.

But if I go through a php-script that checks if I'm a valid user from a
database I will get access to the folder.

So i need a way to send user/password from php to the .htaccess file.
[snip] 

I'm afraid this is not possible for the simple reason that the _client_
needs to transmit the auth credentials to the server.

What you can do however is to somehow include the page contents in your PHP
output. In case the .htaccess-protected content is a simple html page you
could e.g. readfile() it, or process it in a similar way.

HTH,


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