How do I Implement htpasswd on an MVC framework. My client want’s to protect the admin module via htpasswd do I only need to create an htpasswd and htaccess on the admin module folder or is there Yii-way to do this?
How do I Implement htpasswd on an MVC framework. My client want’s to protect the admin module via htpasswd do I only need to create an htpasswd and htaccess on the admin module folder or is there Yii-way to do this?
See the section Role-Based Access Control in the Yii guide. It’s just what you need.
Yeah that will work for a full authentication system. But we just need the simplicity of prompting a user password box just like how htpasswd works. Should I resort to javascript 
Ah, okay. The gii-module has got a built-in password mechanism. You might want to have a look at that.
If everything else fails: htpasswd authentication should work within Location-context (assuming you’re using the Apache webserver).
thank you that’s what I need