[Phplib-users] Re: Default Auth? 7.2d

[Darryl M. <dar...@op...>]

Hello All,

I've just started to follow this thread of discussion about Default
Authentication and was having similar difficulty myself in coming up with an
elegant solution to my dilema which sounds similar to what a few of you are
experiencing.  Basically I wanted a website that had a menu along the top to
access items such as forums, articles, files etc and also a menu down the
lefthand side with a login form in this menu.  Once the user logs in he/she
can access the protected pages but also view the non protected pages with a
personalised welcome message.  I tried to use the Default Auth method as
suggested by Chris however when my login page is posted no authentication
occurs even though the globals $username and $password are present in the
HTTP vars.  It seems like I'll have to send a flag/hidden field from the
login page to say I want to auth the user now and change the page_open() on
each page to include authorisation.  Not sure what other way you could go
about this.  Does anybody else have any suggestions?

While I was writing this I thought it'd be good if there was a permissions
of 'all' so if a user with uid of 'nobody' entered the site and came across
a page  that had permissions of 'all' they could acess it however if they
hit a page of 'user' or 'admin' then they'd be taken to a page that says you
don't have permissions to acess that page and asks you to login.  Anybody
else have any thoughts on this?

Regards
Darryl