Looking for a "user authorization" script
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:50 pm
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 ...
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.
- The script/db calls for only five "inputs" (fname, lname, username, email, password) we need to add one more for authentication purposes.
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.