access protected folder

Hello,

I am using php in my website. I have a protected folder and php scripts in it. i have a php outside the protected folder also.
How can i access the protected folder using php.
For example - there is a folder reg and inside there a protected folder pr.
username is abc password is 123.
i want when i click on php script it opens a script in folder pr using username and password automatically.

Please help. Thanks

If you just want to access a file in a protected folder, you can do that without doing anything...just use the file() function or fopen() to open it. Don't use an http:// name, just use a file system name ...like :

$file = file('./pr/somefile.txt');

When you access a file in this way, it goes around .htaccess and the likes...

I think your verbage means you want to be able to have a link to a protected file. If so, http://user:pass@URL/, would be the format to automatically login as user and pass.

Actually, the easiest way to do it is like this:

whatever folder your HTML is in, let's call it "public_html" is what apache recognizes as the web root. However, PHP can read anywhere on the server, so a file in the web root could read a file NOT ACCESSIBLE OVER THE INTERNET as long as it's on your server. If your web root is /home/web/public_html, you might put your scripts in /home/web/scripts and call the script like so:

from, let's say, index.php in the root-