Hello Cima, Friday, October 14, 2005, 12:33:57 PM, you wrote: C> any info will be highly appreciated!! The easiest way to handle this is to set a session variable once they're authenticated and on all your pages you have something like this: session_start(); if (!$_SESSION['isAuthenticated'] == "Yeppers") include('auth.php'); IIRC you have to use include() vs. require() because a require() would force auth.php regardless of the outcome of the if statement. I'm pretty sure I remember reading this somewhere, but I could be wrong. By using the session variable you only force an auth for people who already haven't authenticated. If you're not familiar with sessions, the key thing to remember is you need to do a session_start(); somewhere in the page prior to reading or writing session variables. Cheers, Leif Gregory -- TB Lists Moderator (and fellow registered end-user) PCWize Editor / ICQ 216395 / PGP Key ID 0x7CD4926F Web Site <http://www.PCWize.com> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php