members login authentication...

[RobbieC]

Hi there, I've got a members area which uses php authentication connectiong to MySQL. Inside, I have a series of flash movies (AS2) which I need to protect in the same manner as the members area itself (to prevent direct linking to files).

The php I am using for the site members area is as follows:

<?php
    session_start();
    require_once 'db_connection_info.php';
    $fd['email'] = $_SESSION['username'];
    $fd['pass'] = $_SESSION['password'];
    $q = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '" . $fd['email'] . "' AND pass = '" . $fd['password'] . "'";
    $user = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($q));
    if(!$user) { header('Location: /home.php?badLogin=Y'); }
?>

How can I integrate a similar script into my actionscript (AS2) so that only members can view these flash movies?

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction...

Rob

[Musicman]

Hi,

there are two possible ways: one of them creates "garbage" links inside the member html area, and a valid user clicking on one of the links would get a redirect to the actual file. So if someone just copied the html part from a valid session, it would not help ... but the movies would still be cached by visitors.
The other one replaces links to swf files by links to php files (note: if you are using adobe embedding wich takes the base name of your movie and adds .swf, you will need to fix that), and the php file is something like

<?
$fp = fopen("movie.swf", "r");
header("Cache-control: no-cache");
header("Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash");
fpassthru($fp);
?>

Musicman