Is there a way to open a dialog box in PHP ? I want to use an HTML form to validate users and like the professional look of the dialog box but I don't want to use Basic HTTP Authentication. It's probably not possible, but I thought I would ask.

Thanks.

Hi!
As you have correctly mentioned one method is the httpd auth method.
Why not try some javascript with php. This would help you get around the problem.
Have a great day :)

regards
amar

Originally posted by rrsnider
Is there a way to open a dialog box in PHP ? I want to use an HTML form to validate users and like the professional look of the dialog box but I don't want to use Basic HTTP Authentication. It's probably not possible, but I thought I would ask.

Thanks.

It's more then possible:


if(!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) {
Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"Everydns\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
// They did not authenticate
exit;
} else {
// They authenticated
}


Just pass them to that page, once they fill in the values for username and password it gets set as $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW. Use those to authenticate via mysql or whatever.

Here's a help page that you could have easily found yourself by searching the php.net manual. (*HINT*)

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php

greetz,
davidu