SQLPage built-in functions

In addition to normal SQL functions supported by your database, SQLPage provides a few special functions to help you extract data from user requests.

These functions are special, because they are not executed inside your database, but by SQLPage itself before sending the query to your database. Thus, they require all the parameters to be known at the time the query is sent to your database. Function parameters cannot reference columns from the rest of your query.

The sqlpage.basic_auth_password function

Introduced in SQLPage 0.7.2.

Returns the password from the Basic Authentication header of the request. If the header is not present, this function raises an authorization error that will prompt the user to enter their credentials.

Example

SELECT 'authentication' AS component,
    (SELECT password_hash from users where name = sqlpage.basic_auth_username()) AS password_hash,
    sqlpage.basic_auth_password() AS password;