pwprotect

Password Protect Files using a PHP login page

An alternative to Apache's Password Protection for Directories.

• Uses PHP sessions
• Logs failed attempts to PHP error log
• Logs successful logins to PHP error log

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Usage

At the top of your script:

<?php
require 'pwprotect.php';

# Your code goes here...
echo "You are logged in as {$_SESSION['pwprotect']['user']}<br>\n";

• The username of the logged in user is provided by the variable $_SESSION['pwprotect']['user']
• Logout a session by navigating to pwprotect.php?logout
• Optionally, redirect to a custom URL by passing an urlencoded string like this pwprotect.php?logout=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com (which would redirect to https://google.com