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I'm building a website where my client needs a login for one of his major clients so that they can access a PDF that shows their products. This is a page that only this particular client should be able to access.
I can do this easily in a CMS but it seems a bit heavyweight for what is a very simple site (apart from the login).
Can anyone suggest the simplest way to do this? Although I'm very proficient at html and css, I don't know how to write PHP or Javascript etc. So if mentioning any of these other techniques please bear this in mind.
Many thanks
Monique
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Thread: Need Simple Login Code
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Jun 05th, 2013, 07:14 AM #1Member
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Jun 05th, 2013, 07:29 AM #2Unpaid WDF Intern
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Even a CMS won't help you in this case, and here's why...a PDF is a downloadable document. That means that as soon as your client's client logs in, the client's client can get the PDF and do pretty much whatever they want with it, including sharing it accidentally or by design with the rest of the world. So if your client only wants his client in turn to access it, the PDF would need to be converted to HTML.
So before you go any further, you may want to check with your client as far as whether he wants to release the document as a PDF in the first place.If I've helped you out in any way, please pay it forward. My wife and I are walking for Autism Speaks. Please donate, and thanks.
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Jun 05th, 2013, 08:52 AM #3Member
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Thanks for responding. That wouldn't be an issue - it's just that they don't want other clients to have access because it's not relevant to them as it's branded for this particular client. It wouldn't matter if someone else did come across it by chance but it shouldn't be accessible via a click on the website to site visitors.
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Jun 05th, 2013, 09:05 AM #4Unpaid WDF Intern
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Okay...as long as the client is okay with it potentially being released by his client into the wild (and things do happen), then something like this might do the trick (and I don't know if this is a good script because I'm not a PHP guy...I work primarily in Windows stuff):
http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/6.htmlIf I've helped you out in any way, please pay it forward. My wife and I are walking for Autism Speaks. Please donate, and thanks.
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Jun 05th, 2013, 10:03 AM #5Member
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Many thanks - I was hoping to have some code that didn't require mysql but will try and give it a go - I'll probably learn a lot doing this which is always a bonus!
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Jun 05th, 2013, 10:21 AM #6Unpaid WDF Intern
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Step outside of your comfort zone and you will truly be free...and learn stuff!
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Jun 05th, 2013, 11:10 AM #7Member
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That's what I've been doing this year and learnt so much
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She is.... She was doing ASP stuff last year... Good for her.
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Jun 06th, 2013, 08:04 PM #9Unpaid WDF Intern
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Sweet! Come over to the ASP side. We have cookies. Session variables too!
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Just password protect the directory using .htaccess and .htpasswd. It's very simple.
http://davidwalsh.name/password-prot...using-htaccess
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