You'll have to put something in each of the files you want to protect. It usually better to use an include() call to the same auth.php file for each of the files you want to protect. If you're looking to protect your .jpg or whatever image files, you can't unless they are outside of the web root or you use an .htaccess file. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: narendra.talele@us.abb.com [mailto:narendra.talele@us.abb.com] > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:57 PM > To: 1LT John W. Holmes > Cc: php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: HTML tags in auth.php script > > > > > ThX John...One other question. > I have an images folder and other 25 sub-folders underneath this folder. > Each of this sub-folder is a web album with it own default index.html > and thumbnails pics in it. > My question is : Is there an easy way of having a folder level access > control to the "IMAGES" folder > and not having to get into each of those 25 index.html files and > including my "auth.php" script in there. > As of now any one can just type my whole URL upto the sub-folder and get > to see my web pics. > > Thanks in advance. > NT > > > > > > > |-------------> > |(Embedded | > |image moved | > |to file: | > |pic16836.pcx)| > | | > |-------------> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------| > |"1LT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> | > |01/10/2003 03:24 PM | > >--------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > Please respond to "1LT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> > > To: Narendra Talele/USINY/ABB@ABB_US01, php-db@lists.php.net > cc: > Subject: Re: HTML tags in auth.php script > > Security Level:? Internal > > > > > Hello every one. I am still learning how PHP works. Can some one > answer > > this > > for me please. > > > > This piece of code here works fine ONLY without the HTML tags (The > > first line and the last lines in the code). > > The moment I add these lines I get the following error: (By the way I > > don't get these errors if I execute this script on UNIX) > > > > Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by > (output > > started at c:\phpdev\www\public\auth.php:2) in > > c:\phpdev\www\public\auth.php on line 4 > > > > Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by > > (output started at c:\phpdev\www\public\auth.php:2) in > > c:\phpdev\www\public\auth.php on line 5 > > Text to send if user hits Cancel button > > > > Basically what I am trying to do is to add > > this line to get a background image for this page "auth.php" in my > > images folder. > > <body background=\"../pics/creme_swirl.jpg\" text=\"green\" > > link=\"blue\" alink=\"red\" vlink=\"red\"> > > > > > > <HTML> > > <?php > > if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) { > > header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Realm"'); > > header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized'); > > echo 'Text to send if user hits Cancel button'; > > exit; > > } else { > > echo "<p>Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}.</p>"; > > echo "<p>You entered {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']} as your > > password.</p>"; > > } > > ?> > > </HTML> > > Absolutely anything outside of the <?php and ?> tags is considered > output to > the browser. In order to use the header() function, you can't have any > output before the call to header(). > > If you want to add that text, then add it in where there is already > output > in the file. Add it to the echo for the "Text to send if ... " or where > your > "Hello ... " message is at. > > ---John Holmes... > > > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php