Brian wrote:
I haven't used .htaccess before and am currently having an issue with it.
I have a site that has photos from various events on it. Some of the
events need to be password protected to view the photos. They enter a
password, it gets checked in the MYSQL database and then the php page
tries to pull the protected photos from the directory that has .htaccess
on it. Yet, everytime it tries to pull an image a username and password
dialog comes up.
How do I pass this information automatically when I try to get the
images so the dialog doesn't come up? Or am I approaching this wrong?
Thanks in advance for the help...
Unfortunately, you can't pass along a username/password to apache in a
simple way. However, a different approach would be to create a script in
the same directory as your main script is in. And then call all images
via that script (eg. image.php?img=abc123.png). Then in that script that
recieves all requests for the images, basically file_get_contents() (or
whatever) the actual image file from the protected directory, set the
right headers (content-type mainly), and echo/print out the image.
Another way would be to limit the .htaccess allow to allow only images
without getting the user/pass dialog. I'm sure it's possible, but I
can't really recall how that is done. It will probably be explained in
the Apache Documentation :)
- tul
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