[ALUG] Creating Customer Login facility on a website

[Tony]

Personally I would install something like Joomla which is free and open 
source rather than spend hours trying to reinvent the wheel and just use the 
registered user bit.  It will also give you a lot of user management options 
and if you installed it with the Community Builder plug in, would help build 
up a nice online Community.   You can also install the FCK editor and allow 
registered users to upload images and files.

It will allow users to register online and give you the option to authorise 
or not.

I used to hand code sites and spent hours doing it but now I use Joomla all 
the time and it saves tons of time.

You can use one of your existing databases, it will just prefix the entries 
with joom_

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sagr" <alug1 at suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk>
To: <main at lists.alug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ALUG] Creating Customer Login facility on a website


Thanks to everyone who has offered advice about how I can set up a customer
login area on our website. I must admit however that I am feeling rather
out of my depth here and feel I may need to hire someone to do this for me.
I was wondering if any ALUGers have had any experience of hiring people to
create websites? The main problem I see is that I do not want an entire
site designed, nor need it's structure changed; I simply want just a
small piece of software I can insert into:

www.customerarea.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/index.html

which will display "Customer ID" and "Password" login boxes, then process
the data entered so that, for, example, if a customer signs in as CustomerID
= "firstcustomer" and Password = "firstpassword" they will be taken to:

www.customerarea.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/firstcustomer/index.html

whereas if they sign in as CustomerID = "secondcustomer" and Password =
"secondpassword" they will be taken to:

www.customerarea.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/secondcustomer/index.html

The webspace is PHP enabled. I notice some ALUGers have suggested using
databases for storing login info. Well the hosting (which is with 1&1) does
include two SQL databases but these are both in use so none are currently
available.  As I originally mentioned: our customer base is quite stable so
editing an ascii login config file by hand would not be a problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should go about hiring someone to
write this login code?

Sagr.

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