can this be done?

[wesley]

hi guys

just had a thought of something i'd like to have in my forum but dont know if its can be done. but hopefully someone here will know

i'll try my best to explain my idea.

www.xxxxxxxxx.com/forum << that's the public url of my forum.

i upload the videos to www.xxxxxxxx.com/video

will make private area in my forum for private registered people to access there. so public registered people wont be able to access there. (ie, under 18,people with low posts etc)

so i post url of the video in private forum, people download the video from /video/ folder BUT this video folder will be opens to public so public people can browse www.xxxxxxxxx.com/video. i'd like to secure this video folder so private registered people can download videos by logged in the private area/forum.

i'm not sure if i explain properly. i've talked to my friend about this, he said he think its called "htpassword" or something like that.

anyone know if its possible to do this? or a better way?

thanks

 

[wesley]

good idea, never thought of that

but a private registered can give the url to anyone outside the forum

 

[wesley]

Note: That wasn't explained very well

yup! or is it me? lol

 

[wesley]

hi rob,

still not sure what to do but if you dont mind if u rewrite those codes for me then i'll do a little test so i can change the codes for different username and video

a video is 1.mpg in video folder

username/password is ben/ben

i'm using phpbb forum.

thanks

 

[wesley]

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