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Looking for a "user authorization" script

Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:50 pm
by abnaki
Besides our forum (phpBB of course) we've got a web site up and running for other content for our organization. We are currently using a (free) Perl script to password protect an entire subdomain (members.domain.org) using .htaccess. It's serving it's purpose except that ...
  • The script/db calls for only five "inputs" (fname, lname, username, email, password) we need to add one more for authentication purposes.
We've spent the better part of this week surfing for a better solution and have come up short. We've found scripts that allow us to add fields but don't require admin authorization and scripts that require authorization but don't allow us to add fields others that don't even have "forgotten" forms. :? We're a group of newbies/non IT types and have very limited knowledge of PHP/Perl/CGI (this is apparent 'cause otherwise we would have been able to mod our current script or any other script that we have come across). I've posted this in another forum and it was suggested I post here also. I'm asking if anyone could point me to a solution in PHP.

We are primarily concerned with the privacy of our members but above all we need a script/solution that requires an admin to approve new accounts.

We only have the one MySQL db available so any script we add, that would require SQL, needs to share the db with phpBB (although we don't think this should be a problem because phpBB uses phpbb_ as a prefix for all the tables). We've looked into CMS' extensively and besides most being vulnerable a CMS is "way over the top" for our needs.

One last thing ... our budget is limited or moreover nonexistent but we are not looking for charity (although we are a non-profit) we're just looking for advice.

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:13 am
by prithvim
i can do it for you without even using a database.
please contact me for further details.

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:16 am
by JayBird
prithvim wrote:i can do it for you without even using a database.
please contact me for further details.
...and why would they want to do that!? Make more sense using the database, more secure IMO.

Mark

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:59 am
by prithvim
Bech100 wrote:
prithvim wrote:i can do it for you without even using a database.
please contact me for further details.
...and why would they want to do that!? Make more sense using the database, more secure IMO.

Mark
that is because not everybody can afford a database or have access to one. that is the reason i said that.

by the way if you want to use a database, i can do that also for you.
please contact me personally if you are interested.

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:53 am
by qads
they are running phpbb, dont think you can run it without database :wink: