<?
//basically copy autheticate.php cause we'll use a lot of it later
require("global.php");


  if(!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) {  # if $PHP_AUTH_USER is not set
					
    Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic Realm=\"Forum\"");
    Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
    echo"error";
    exit;
  } else {
					
$username=$PHP_AUTH_USER;
$password=$PHP_AUTH_PW;

//start bb authentication
  verifyusername($username,$password);
//continue w/ authentication....
//paste in the code after verifyusername() here..
}
?>