Zend to the rescue: http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/authentication.php > Is there any way to password protect a directory with htaccess, while maintaining a > username/passwd database with PHP/MySQL instead of using htpasswd? We were thinking of > using mod_auth_mysql, but we do not have root on the hosting server and therefore don't > have access to the httpd.conf file. Is there any other way to do this?