Re: [PHP] Using PHP for accsess control, preventing access to static files

2005-10-29 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, October 27, 2005 11:05 am, Dan Trainor wrote: It's been suggested to use readfile() to accomplish this, by forwarding content from outside of the document root - but this just sounds odd. On top of being (what I think would be) incredibly slow, it just doesn't sound right. A) It's

Re: [PHP] Using PHP for accsess control, preventing access to static files

2005-10-28 Thread Richard Heyes
Dan Trainor wrote: Hello, all - I'm designing a controlled access system in PHP, and it's coming along quite well. It's very simple, and just sets a session varibale, such as $_SESSION['authenticated'] = 1, not a whole lot. If you do this this, you must make sure you have some sort of

[PHP] Using PHP for accsess control, preventing access to static files

2005-10-27 Thread Dan Trainor
Hello, all - I'm designing a controlled access system in PHP, and it's coming along quite well. It's very simple, and just sets a session varibale, such as $_SESSION['authenticated'] = 1, not a whole lot. Now I run a small sniplet of code on the top of each HTML and PHP file, which checks for

Re: [PHP] Using PHP for accsess control, preventing access to static files

2005-10-27 Thread Jason Motes
I'm designing a controlled access system in PHP, and it's coming along quite well. It's very simple, and just sets a session varibale, such as $_SESSION['authenticated'] = 1, not a whole lot. Now I run a small sniplet of code on the top of each HTML and PHP file, which checks for this

Re: [PHP] Using PHP for accsess control, preventing access to static files

2005-10-27 Thread Dan Trainor
Jason Motes wrote: I'm designing a controlled access system in PHP, and it's coming along quite well. It's very simple, and just sets a session varibale, such as $_SESSION['authenticated'] = 1, not a whole lot. Now I run a small sniplet of code on the top of each HTML and PHP file, which