Login forms

[VQuaresma]

Hi, friends. Your help is very important to me. I have my web pages in a protected folder in my server. When someone tries to open any page in that folder an authomatic pop-up form opens to validate the member's login and password. So far so good. This was expected. But how can I have my own login form? I mean, I already have my login form and my member's logins and passwords in a .htpasswd file in a folder outside public_html folder. My problem is how to make my login form work! Thank you for your help.