Adrian,
I use something like this:
<?php
if ( $is_member) // global var set during login
{
include("/home/belowdocroot/project_a/memberprofile.php"); // or whatever
your page is
}
else
{
echo "Sorry, members only. Please login or register.";
header("location:/members/login.php" );
}
HTH
Gerry
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php_and_mysql/
On 3/10/06, Adrian Bruce <abruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> After some advice (surprise!)
>
> I currently store restricted documents beneath the web root so they are
> not accessible via the URL, when a valid user wishes to view a document
> i copy it to a temporary folder above the root and load it in a new
> page. the only way i can then manage to delete the copy is
> automatically deleting all temp files when any user goes to the log out
> page.
>
> This is obviously not a very good way of doing this but unless i can
> establish when a user is no longer viewing the doc then i dont know when
> to delete it. I was wandering how others deal with these problems like
> this
>
