xxxtera

HI im in the process of finishing my paysite, and have some questions, i have seen alot of sites offering free access to 1 bonus site when signing up today..ect. how does that work do the sites share the password file??
And i really need some good links to places i can read up on all the .htaccess stuff...

When i surfer logs into my site i would like to write "welcome back <% username %>" how do i do that?

i know how to do it in asp, but i have no idea how to grap the stuff from the htaccess prompt? and im on unix...so hmmm

I know this ain´t Experts-exchange.com but i hve gotten some good answers before so i´ll try again :-)

Please advise.

Regards
Nick