Hello all,

I am a PHP n00b. I have read the Login page post, which is over my head. I was hoping someone could explain a concept to me more in layman's terms. This is what I hope to do - I want to go to my url (www.xyzblah.com) and have it automatically prompt for either a username and password, or just a password. After the correct credentials are supplied, go to the regular index.html.

Any help you could give me is appreciated.

Thanks.

You should probably use some sort of portal. A portal is a big content management system.. Or you could use a forum and include the login from that onto your index page and then make it forward you to like an index2 page. I'm not sure. Try xoops.org or phpnuke.org. Uhm just go through your Cpanel and find an image called Add-On Scripts or something of the sort and you will find many Content Management Systems (CMS) which would probably be easiest for you. I used to use XOOPS and it worked fine, I had a login on the main page to where it logged you in and then displayed the main site. It has features such as forums, links, articles, downloads, etc. It's pretty good. I never really like PHPNuke but I know people who really like it.. So give a few a try I guess, or maybe someone else can come up with something better.. lol

If you want somethin simple but eficient you can google for PHP password script, you will find many small scripts that can be put at header of page, and make that page password protected. There only thing that it's not 100% secure... anyone who has granted acces to your webhost's ftp can download sourc of php file and see password phrase in it. Average user cant see password from page's source code. Anyway Im using similar system on my new webpage, but im working on some kind of password shaddow file - if you know unix/linux you'll understand...