[Webdev] Authenticated redirecting

[adam beecher]

> What do you normally use to protect directories? At the moment I'm using
> .htaccess files which instruct apache to use mod_auth_mysql. Is there a
> better way to protect direcotories ?
>

You can use standard HTTP_AUTH, with .htpasswd files. Or PHP has AUTH hooks
built in, so you can use your MySQL database to authenticate users using
$PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW. Or you can use DMB, or ... :)

adam