UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? restrict pages

Hope ive posted this in the right place.......

Ive often wondered if it would be at all possible to make it so to access a page, external from the ubb it is required that you be registered and logged in.

I assumed that a good start would be to make the board only viewable by registered members and view source - and insert the cookie script into the external pages.

Well this idea failed
And I gave up...But looking on here I see that you guys can make a UBB do anything! - and my proplem seems like a walk in the park in comparasin.

So I wonder if anyone would share with me on how to make asp pages check the cookie from the ubb and act accordingly?

Thanx in advance guys.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/password.htm

Just make a page and put it in a private forum long-winded, but this is one way

lol that really isnt how I want to do it tho. Thanks tho matey!

Mmmm... do you have PHP on your server? Take a peek at the Accelerator, it contains methods you can use to determine if a user is logged in and to check his profile to make sure the user is legit.

only ASP im afraid
Isnt there just some code I can pull from the ubb templates that check for the log in cookie?

The cookie will be named "ubber", followed by a Julian date as listed in vars_config as Cookie_Number.

There will be a number of arguments, split by ampersands - the user number, password , usernum, pdn, and others that you can ignore.

If the cookie exists and the usernum file exists, open it and compare the username & password to ensure a match.

swoooshhhhhhhhhh, well over my head!
Lets change direction.

I have an imagefolio Gallery which I wish to restrict to registered members. The register base is the UBB.

Can I pull code from the ubbs cgi that checks for membership and put it into the imagefolio cgi ?

If so, what code will I need and where do I put it?

<~~~Absolute Noob!

If no one knows that, can someone tell me which part of the ubb checks for regisration? is it ultimate.cgi itself or the templates, or..or..or?

Then I shall have a starting point on where to begin playing around

cheers

The verify_id_num subroutine in ubb_lib is responsible for most of the authentication in the UBB.

It does what I outlined above.

Spot on m8, thanx alot
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