authenticated redirection

[olokiop]

I'm looking for a script that would allow my users to login via a password and username and then forward them to a specific URL. The scripts I've tried have not worked out so I am looking for sugestions.

Anyone here know of a good passworded redirect script?

[olokiop]

Anyone? *cricket* *cricket*

[jason]

I don't know of a "canned" script to do this, but I write this functionality into many of my projects myself. My method is to add code to the top of my scripts to detect if someone is logged in (and in more advanced situations, to check if they are allowed to access the requested page). The everything is OK they see the page. If not they get a login form and/or a "Not Authorized" message.

Psudo-code:

If session/environment/cookie value doesn't indicate login
    redirect to/show login form
    exit script - nothing more will be run after this
end if

normal code here - will never get run if the script encounters the exit above

On the login side I check for either the HTTP_REFERER value or a redirect variable passed in the query string that indicates the page that the user got bounced from. Upon successful login I use that value to send the user back to the page they wanted.

I don't know if any of this will help you or not. Let me know if I can assist you further.

--Jason