[PHP]Limiting access to page

[danse]

I'm just a few classes away of publishing a resource center, but there is an issue in wich I would like to hear your opinion and use your advice. I have a limited transfer ( 2000GB / per year as i cannot afford better, yet ), so i don't want the resource center to be spread all over the world. I would like to limit is as much as i can for Ragezone users only, so that's the problem any ideas how ?

The most obvious idea that comes to my mind to reguraly change access password wich would be posted in thread here on rz, but it would be quite troublesome, to every week check the thread to get the password, next idea was to make a registration and post the password only for one week, then resend it changed after week on emails, but i guess not all will reg in first week.

Is there any other idea ? Making accounts creation moderated and check each time rz members list, that would be to troublesome for me and site admins.

Hopefully someone has a really good idea, waiting for your replies,
thanks in advance.

 

[hacker_kts]

Well, what I can thought of for now is, make a member system (there will be one field which ask for their RZ username), if a user wanna register, he/she has to PM you through RZ (to confirm their identity in RZ).

To check the member list, you can do it by scripting just make use of file_get_contents() and preg_match_all(), but it's kinda useless because other people could just choose any name.

 

[Daevius]

Making a member system will decrease downloading A LOT...so just by doing that it would be fine. You can also put a limit of downloads per IP...

 

[danse]

Making a member system will decrease downloading A LOT...so just by doing that it would be fine. You can also put a limit of downloads per IP...

@daevious: If you say so, and nope i don't want to make a download limit per ip, cause it may turn somehow as a rapidshare or similar. The server has also some anti-hotilink protection but i would like to add mine as well, and that's another thing wich i need to think of.

@hacker_kts ye that's the problem.