login area [tutorials required]

does anyone know how to create a simple login area with PHP, so that the users are checked against a list in a text file and the are allowed to access certain pages as they are logged in.

are there any simple no grotty tutorials out there?
thanks in advance
sroots

hello,

check out the following tutorials.

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/authentication.php

HTH

thanks for the link it is exactly what i require

thank you

scroots