Is this possible to accomplish?

PHP
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greetings all!:slight_smile:

we have a reports portal at work that employees use to access daily/monthly reports. The portal is running on Apache.

here is the workflow:

  • user enters the url in the browser
  • browser asks for login & password (see attached file: “popup-login.JPG”)
  • if the login is successful, it takes them to a folder that contains the reports.

I would like to know if it is possible to create a login user interface in an html/php page like this - see attached file: “login-no-pop-up.png”

The usernames and passwords for the users are configured in the apache’s htaccess file. This is an internal reports server.

any help is appreciated!

Thanks!
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The htaccess file makes the little windows-like popup log in. You can definitely make your own log in page. The best way to do it is using cookies or sessions. Instead of having the user names/passwords kept in an apache file, you have a database with this info in it.

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this might help
http://www.addedbytes.com/articles/password-protect-a-directory-with-htaccess/