Hello. I have installed PHP4 and MySQL (.dmg) on Mac OSX v3 client. Everything is up and running. I have created tables in my DB, established user privileges, etc through the 'terminal' app. I have turned on web sharing through the 'preferences' panel and dragged my .php files to the 'sites' folder.
Accessing localhost/127.0.0.1 I see the .php files - simple scipts work.

The problem is connecting to my DB and being able to execute a simple query on any of my tables. Below is an authentication script I found. I want to match username/password entries. Unfortunately I cannot even establish a connection to my DB, the $PHP_AUTH_USER AND _PW don't seem to do anything and I keep getting the 401 error. What can I do to get at my tables? (I apologize about the long email, but if anyone has some advice please let me know) Do the .dmg files set up PHP as a standalone/cgi instead of an apache module?

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<?php

$auth = false; // Assume user is not authenticated

if (isset( $PHP_AUTH_USER ) && isset($PHP_AUTH_PW)) {

// Connect to MySQL

mysql_connect( 'hostname', 'username', 'password' )
or die ( 'Unable to connect to server.' );

// Select database on MySQL server

mysql_select_db( 'your_db' )
or die ( 'Unable to select database.' );

// Formulate the query

$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE
username = '$PHP_AUTH_USER' AND
password = '$PHP_AUTH_PW'";

// Execute the query and put results in $result

$result = mysql_query( $sql )
or die ( 'Unable to execute query.' );

// Get number of rows in $result.

$num = mysql_numrows( $result );

if ( $num != 0 ) {

// A matching row was found - the user is authenticated.

$auth = true;

}

}

if ( ! $auth ) {

header( 'WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Private"' );
header( 'HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized' );
echo 'Authorization Required.';
exit;

} else {

echo '<P>You are authorized!</P>';
}

?>

html >>

<form action='post' methos="xxx.php"
<input type="text" name="username" value="" />
<input type="password" name="password" value="" />
.....submit button
</form>

Try replacing $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW with $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] respectively.

I will give it try thanks. I will log in tomorrow to let you know if it worked.