Re: Most Efficiant Way to do restricted Areas

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13401
interpreted = N
texte = You don't have to use WebCatalog's [protect] tag. Instead, write your own include file that compares their username and password and compares it the values from the members.db file. If the authentication dialog is necessary, throw in an [authenticate] tag. Duplicate the multigroupchecker file and modify it: it does what you want except to a separate database. Then use this as an include file on the pages you want protected.John.>Wasup People, > >Hey I'm doing a site in which i'm having areas which are restricted. I >want to be able to give the users the ability to enter themselves in a >members.db and then get access to that area. The way I have it setup >right now gets all the info needed into a db called members.db >(first&last name, username and password, etc.) So i have all that stuff >figured out. > >Question: How do i tell the authenticaion process to look at >members.db useranme/password? Do i need to rename the field names as >well? From Membername to Username? > >Cool thanks alot! >-- > _ > __( )_ While Eeyore frets ... > ( (o____ and Piglet hesitates ... > | | and Rabbit calculates ... > | (__/ and Owl pontificates > \ / ___ > / \ \___/ > / ^ / \ ...Pooh just is. > | | |__|_HUNNY | > | \______)____/ > \ / > \ /_ Damien Joldersma > | ( __) p00h@wcug.wwu.edu > (____) http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~p00h John A. Hill Pacific Coast Software 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #453 * Web tools for Macintosh and WinNT * San Diego, CA 92128 http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Most Efficiant Way to do restricted Areas (John Hill 1997)
  2. Most Efficiant Way to do restricted Areas (Damien Joldersma 1997)
You don't have to use WebCatalog's [protect] tag. Instead, write your own include file that compares their username and password and compares it the values from the members.db file. If the authentication dialog is necessary, throw in an [authenticate] tag. Duplicate the multigroupchecker file and modify it: it does what you want except to a separate database. Then use this as an include file on the pages you want protected.John.>Wasup People, > >Hey I'm doing a site in which i'm having areas which are restricted. I >want to be able to give the users the ability to enter themselves in a >members.db and then get access to that area. The way I have it setup >right now gets all the info needed into a db called members.db >(first&last name, username and password, etc.) So i have all that stuff >figured out. > >Question: How do i tell the authenticaion process to look at >members.db useranme/password? Do i need to rename the field names as >well? From Membername to Username? > >Cool thanks alot! >-- > _ > __( )_ While Eeyore frets ... > ( (o____ and Piglet hesitates ... > | | and Rabbit calculates ... > | (__/ and Owl pontificates > \ / ___ > / \ \___/ > / ^ / \ ...Pooh just is. > | | |__|_HUNNY | > | \______)____/ > \ / > \ /_ Damien Joldersma > | ( __) p00h@wcug.wwu.edu > (____) http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~p00h John A. Hill Pacific Coast Software 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #453 * Web tools for Macintosh and WinNT * San Diego, CA 92128 http://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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