DWMX/PHP user authentication problem

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I'm using Dreamweaver Mx, PHP/MySQL server model. I use MX because I'm not a strong programmer at all. This is the first dynamic website I've built 100% on my own.

I have already created the bulk of the site including the registration, results list, detail, update and delete pages.
Now that I need to setup the login and site restriction aspect of the site, I find that MX doesn’t offer the "User Authentication" Server Behaviors for PHP.
I have found PHAkt2 MX from Interakt. However, I'm not exactly sure how to use it with my current connection and coded pages.

I need some help in determining what to do from here.
· Is there a simple way of getting PHAkt2 MX (or any similar product) to merge with my existing site so that I may gain from its benefits?
· Do I need to start over?
· Would you know where I could find easy to understand PHP 'scripts' that will enable me to complete the user authentication portion of my site?

I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.
Tony

 

[ScottNeth]

I had a problem with using authentication on my site because my corporate security wouldn't let me use whatever variables it is that DWUD usually uses. Here's the work around I did. I made a table (Users) of the users login ID's and a flag (I think I used the number 1 or something). I built a recordset w/ the following SQL
SELECT *
FROM dbo.Users
WHERE UID = '#cgi.remote_user#'
If the user that is logged in '#cgi.remote_user#' is not on the table, the recordset is then null, so, DWUD has a little server behavior where you can enter text that will show up if a recordset is null. If the logged in user is in the table, there's another behavior for that. If you learn a little about <cfif> statements, you can do quite a bit this way. It's not perfect, but it works. Scott Neth
Web Designer/Cyberpunk