[PHP, .htaccess and no authentication window popup]

Hello,

Here is the deal. I want to be able, from PHP, to set $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW so that the authentication window wont pop up when accessing the protected (with .htaccess) directory. The authetication is done with PHP, so I don't want to have to enter a user name and password again when I access the directory.

My code looks like this but it won't work. This code is executed in a non-protected directory and then it gets redirected to a protected directory (projectPath).

$PHP_AUTH_USER = $user;
$PHP_AUTH_PW = $pass;

session_start();

session_register("PHP_AUTH_USER");
session_register("PHP_AUTH_PW");

header( 'Location: ' . $_SESSION['projectPath'] );
exit;

Someone managed to do that already?

Thanks.