Where is start ( ) ?

[rearnest]

Should the start ( ) object be in Auth_HTTP?

I'm trying to do the O'Reilly Coffee Talk blog form Learning PHP & MySQL but am hung up here. I am connecting to the database and do have Auth/HTTP.php include but getting "Access Denied" when I call start ( ).

[mark]

Not sure what your question (and problem) really is, but you might want to either look into the provided examples [1] or provide more details here.

[1] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.authentication.auth-http.php

[rearnest]

Thanks for the quick response Mark.

Actually, I've got a script set up almost exactly like the one in example 2. I keep tripping over the "$a->setCancelText('<h2>Error 401</h2>'); step. (If I comment out start ( ) I don't get this message so I presume it's happening inside the function.)

I thought it might be good to see more of what start ( ) is doing but, unlike Auth_HTTP ( ), I don't see the code for it in Auth/HTTP.php. That made me wonder that perhaps I don't have things installed right and led to my question.

So at this point I figure I'm either not getting to the start function or I'm passing bad parameters in $AuthOptions. Either way there doesn't seem to be a lot out there explaining how start ( ) works. It'd be nice to see the source code.

[mark]

Ah, I think I know what the problem is: Auth_HTTP extends the Auth package. And the Auth package also needs to be installed. (But actually the "new Auth_HTTP(...)" call should fail if Auth.php is missing.) Anyway, you'll the start() method in Auth.php.

Does this help you? If not, I'm still not sure about your problem, sorry.

[rearnest]

Thanks again Mark. This does answer my question. I have it included now and can see the source code. It does not solve my problem, however, I'll have to dig deeper on that and may come back again when I can ask more intelligently. (Can you tell I'm new to PHP & Pear?)