nsouthall — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:50:19 +0000

I believe its Unix/Apache.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:34:00 +0000

what is the OS? (Win 9x,Win NT,*nix)
what is the web server? (Apache,IIS,PWS)

nsouthall — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:34:12 +0000

Mark,
How would I go about password protecting the directory using the web server? im not familiar with that. I would love to do anything that would save me from coding...

BTW,
thanx for replying (detox too)

Mark Hensler — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:52:33 +0000

same concept for PHP as ASP...
user logs in, you validate user/password, set a session cookie, and kill it when they leave...

Have you thought about password protecting the directory using the web server? This would save you from coding.

detox — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:25:59 +0000

If they support PHP then that's great... I assume you know how to program in PHP? to tell you the truth, the most i have ever looked into PHP was over the last 10 minutes! Because the coding looks foreign to me I would obviously stick with ASP - simply because monopoly-soft will continue to dominate the market and they are basically holding most of the chips. That being said I am sure that they laughed away JAVA!

nsouthall — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:48:39 +0000

its a business im starting.
Im not sure if my host supports ASP. I know they support PHP...

detox — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:27:22 +0000

comne to think of it, you cant do this client side.. you cant read or write to the filesystem object like you can with say ASP.

If you want to use ASP the it is quite easy to script for you, however it depends on whether or not your host will allow you to use asp. if it is a free provider you definately wont.

what kind of site is it - personal or business?

nsouthall — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:08:16 +0000

Well, i was hoping to do it in HTML or JavaScript, but if there is an easy server side solution, i guess that will work.

detox — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:01:09 +0000

How are you wanting to acheive this, through straight html javascript etc or by using asp etc.. Basically if your using client side scripting it can get a bit tricky, but server side scripting makes it so easy it's not funny!