> I  DO NOT want to prompt the user for username and password with header
> calls to the browser. I don't want the authenticate dialog box to pop up
> on the client browser; I want to collect the username and password on a
> PHP or HTML page--I need to collect more data than just username and
> password. But when the user submits the login data, I  want to set
> authentication credentials that work just as though the user entered
> data in the pop up. How can I do this with PHP?

Impossible.  HTTP simply does not support you setting these credentials in
the remote browser directly.  The best you can do is emulate it using
cookies and/or sessions.

-Rasmus


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