Hi,

Im building a site that will have alot of pictures and videos uploaded but will also have a forum.

I will be using XMB forum. I have tried to do this all in Joomla but i dont know it very well so am wanting help in doing it the following way.

So I will upload new material about 2 times a week to pages within a folder, I want to password protect this folder so that only members who register in the forum can look at it.

I dont want members to have 2 register twice, once for forum and another time for password protected directory.

Is there any way or script i can use that can register the user for both the forum and directory?
Or when user registers in forum automaticlly use these details for protected directory?

Thanks

embed the pics and vids in a page of your site and deny access to the page rather than the directory. You can cover direct access off using .htaccess when you go live with your site

Another solution would be to:

1. store the files in the folder as desired.
2. use modrewrite / .htaccess to rewrite all requested files to securefile.php?filewas=123.jpg
3. securefile.php checks the XMB session data to confirm the user is logged in
4. if not logged in, header / redirect
5. if logged in, readfile() the contents of the requested file.

I use this sort of system a lot on various different sites, it makes it easy to add password protected content, as you can now just upload the files to the folder and they're instantly protected.

A bit more info about a related system I built based on Joomla sessions here: http://www.incero.com/webdev/securin...login-sessions

Solution 1: on successful registration or password change export user credentials to .htpasswd file for your protected dir.

Solution 2: us apache mod_auth_db module to read login credentials from db instead of text file.