expiring passwords

looking for a solution

[sarkye]

having discovered that my expiring page plan isn't going to work, (thank you to everyone who gave advice on that - it won't go to waste! I'll find another use for it!) I've decided that the best solution is to have a page that requires a password in order to view it.

Question is, what's the best way to implement a system that allows one-time use of an assigned password?

My PHP/mySQL skills are fair-good so this would be the preferable route but if you've got any suggestions that are better I'd appreciate it. The goal is to avoid manual administration of the passwords if possible.

Thank you :)

[sarkye]

already solved it - sorry

in case you're interested, I passed a purchase authentication code to the last page in the sequence as a variable and requested user input onLoad, user input should = authentication code which must match the variable to prevent redirecting to the 'sorry' page :)

now if I'd just thought about it a little more broadly instead of thinking in straight lines.

[rcjordan]

Is the password to remain viable until used, however long that might be?

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>already solved it

That was fast. Strike the above question.