What knowledge of PHP do you

greg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:34:04 +0000

What knowledge of PHP do you have?
With PHP, and a DB such as MYSQL, it is quite simple to achieve.

If you have no knowledge of PHP you could perhaps do as silverwing and netsperience suggested and find a pre-made script.
There are hundreds of membership/registration/login script tutorials and pre-made scripts out there, although all the ones I found where either over complex for what would be a simple membership function, or not nearly complex enough to be secure.

The 'best' way would be to learn the PHP required to make your own, then you know it will be secure. But that being a viable option depends on your knowledge of PHP and amount of time you are willing to spend learning.
The other advantages of learning it yourself is you can tailor it to your exact specifications, and also change it in the future if required.

netsperience wrote: you can

silverwing — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:07:04 +0000

netsperience wrote:

you can research others at opensourcecms or at showcasecms (right, silverwing?)

Well, not really for this...

It really depends on what you want your users to do. If you want them to post items to the site, then a content management system would work well. If you just want to block access to anonymous users, then you should be able to find a script at hotscripts.

~silverwing

well, one option is to

netsperience — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:43:52 +0000

well, one option is to export the content of your site into a "community" portal such as Drupal or you can research others at opensourcecms or at showcasecms (right, silverwing?)

alternatively if you or someone you know is good at code, check out a script library like HotScripts - for a user database you are probably talking about a php/mysql solution but I think there are solutions using xml instead of an sql database