What is the best way to password protect folder/page using php without a db or username

Question

What is the best way to password protect folder using php without a database or user name but using. Basically I have a page that will list contacts for organization and ne

Answer 1

If you want to avoid cookies, sessions and don't want to play with .htaccess files, you can also do http authentication soley with PHP:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php

You can hard code the password into the file and change it as needed, or include it from a file not in your web_accessible directory.

The downside is you don't have the ability to format the "login" screen - it will be a standard http authentication dialog box