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@suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk To: main@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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