[helenroskil]

I need to make a members only page, and have made a page for user-ID and password. But it is so simple that anyone with minimum html-knowledge will be able to see the password in the code, and it is possible to get straight to the members page by putting member.html after domain name.
How do I hide user-ID and password in the script? (I have never used database, but maybe the clue is to hide them in a DB?), how do I hide the address of the members page? Will I have to use CGI or PHP? I am not familiar with this.
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. I use dreamweaver, by the way. Thanks.

[pgo]

Originally Posted by helenroskil

Will I have to use CGI or PHP?

PHP/MySQL is your best bet.

It's not in the scope of a forum thread to explain how, really.

You can also use .htaccess password authentication if you are on an Apache server. Google it.

[gk]

if you're dealing with a small number of people and htaccess/htpasswd file would work.

[helenroskil]

Thanks, people,

I googled it, and it is a start! Now I only have to read some pages

[ab]

If you'll use the PHP thing, then stick to sessions, they are as easy as just starting a session, writing a session if password is OK and letting the user enter or kick him out otherwise. Just couple lines of code.