Password Protect A Page?

[Kabigon]

Around the internet, and on some webmaster communities, I have been seeing things like password protected pages. That way a page of a site could be entered so some staff members and friends could see it with the page(s) on the site. I'm not looking for a direct login script (although if someone could tell me how to do those too then it would be appreciated) but I just need one where you type in a password then it automatically redirects to the page.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Abwayax]

Depends on what your environment is. If all you have available to you is JavaScript, use something like this.

If you have PHP, something like this would do

<?php
$logins = array(
             "user" => "password",
             "user2" => "anotherpassword",
            );

if ($logins[$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER]] != $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) {
    header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Place"');
    header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
    echo 'Text to send if user hits Cancel button';
    exit;
} else {
    echo "<p>Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}.</p>";
    echo "<p>You're in the private page!</p>";
}
?>

 

[Eevee]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html