Re: [PHPix2-devel] Made a bit of a change.

[Bryan K. <br...@wu...>]

Well, let's have a quick discussion:

How would we like password protection to work?
There are two ways I can think of which seem to fit nicely:

a) single file with username:password:album1,album2,album3

Pro: Single file
     Easy to modify and add new albums for a user.
Cons: Allow based password protection, ie, deny all but the albums
      you specify. Could get nasty with lots of albums.
       - suggestion, make a * and -album1, although this would require
         more parsing, it would allow you to do something like:
         username:password:*,-album1,-album2
      What do you do about nested albums? (album1/album2)?
      requires special file handling to create the password file.

b) .htpasswd files in each album you want protected, as well as a master
   .htpasswd in the script dir.

Pro: * Simple design.
     * Files can be created with the htpasswd util distributed with
       apache.
     * deny based. If you want to allow access to an album you don't put a
       .htpasswd in the dir (and also don't have the master one)
     * works well with nested albums. (searches down the tree for a
       password file)
     * Works the same way as the current config override system.
Cons: * Multiple files.
      * Slightly more work to upkeep, although good design of the album
        heirarchy could minimise that.
      * Might have to have the same password file in multiple locations.
         - Could be solved with soft links
      * Can't have a master password file without closing all the album
        dirs.

Any thoughts?

I currently have a working version of type 2, take a look at
  http://wuzzle.org/photos/new/phpix

  You should be able to view the main page fine, and CVS, but if you try
  view Sample Album, it should prompt you for a user/pass.

  user: test
  pass: ook

  I can modify it for type a) pretty easily. or possibly a hybrid. Now
  that the framework is in, the way we want to apply it is easily
  changed.

Bryan  
      
On Thu 2001-11-01 (10:11), Neale Pickett wrote:
> So then, Bryan Kilian <br...@wu...> is all like:
> > Okie, I made a bit of a change in the way phpix works. I offloaded the
> > images onto a separate script, which deals with resizing and caching.
> 
> Good idea!

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