Intergrating 4images user managament with the rest of my site

[tocom]

I need a user management system for my site, but i need it to work with 4images too. For example, i want certain directories in my site to be protected, only registered users can access, i want peopple that registered for my gallery(4images) to be able to enter their user name and pass in the htaccess and be able to access the files. i want to put the login page in my layout too, is there any way to do that?

[Chris]

You don't need to use .htaccess to control category access, just edit the category permissions from the admin control panel.  We used to have a post about a login form outside of 4images, try searching for it.  You can also create a new custom template page that has just the login form.  You'll find that in the FAQ forum