Password protect portion of site

[JonnyLarson]

In our site, we have a home page with links to various items on the site. We list our product categories from Zen Cart. The product links are to the main index.php for Zen Cart ("...represents the hub of the Zen Cart MVC system" according to the comment at the top of the index.php file).

When a user clicks a product link, I'd like to impose some simple security with a sitewide userid/password combo -- like that of a simple "AuthType Basic" .htaccess rule.

How do I do this in Zen Cart? Any and all information would be greatly appreciated.

[moesoap]

for anyone interested in applying some form of password protection to specific pages in zen cart take a look at this script

http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/password-protect.php

It's simple enough to implement.