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[steven21]

I am hoping to create a members section for one of my website, so that members can log in to it and view information that any normal visitor will not be able to view.

But as usual I have no idea where to start. Does anyone have any pointers for me and how to go about it?

[Mark Voss]

If you want a decent pre-built solution, ASP Login (http://www.toddwoolums.com/asplogin.asp) is pretty good.

[Piercy]

I am hoping to create a members section for one of my website, so that members can log in to it and view information that any normal visitor will not be able to view.

But as usual I have no idea where to start. Does anyone have any pointers for me and how to go about it?

Easiest way would be to set up a secure folder (via Helm) and hide those pages you want to rescrict access to behind that. The major problem though is you would need to manually set up each account via helm - depends on how many users you are talking about? :whistle:

[Mark Voss]

The major problem though is you would need to manually set up each account via helm
Once you've setup the secure folder in Helm and added at least one user, you can add additional users via a php script.

You can also retrieve a user's username and password on login and use these to retrieve additional membership data from your database.

[steven21]

The major problem though is you would need to manually set up each account via helm - depends on how many users you are talking about? :whistle:

200+ members have signed up for the newsletter - so about the same numbers for the members section. For that pre-made software it says to install a certain file into a non-accesible area on the web - how can I make an area non accessible?

[screwsoft]

How about asp.net it includes built in membership controls, you don't need to install anything, it's already on the server. You just need to put a login control on a page and then use <loggedintemplate> tags on your pages, anything inside these tags can only be logged in members or you can deny access to whole sections of the sit eby using the web.config file.

[sladmin]

Much easier in ASP VB. Simply setup a database and build a few pages and your done. Give me a shout if u want to go down this route

[screwsoft]

asp.net improved a great deal over asp in asp you have to write all the code yourself to check log ins etc or download somebody elses as you alluded to above with asp.net it is all there for you, can be up and running in less than 5 minutes.

[Nick Irvine]

Steven, as always ignore the asp suggestions!

PHP would be the way forward. You could create a MYSQL database around the already established newsletter database. Perhaps design a basic script to email all subscribers to request them to enter a password, or auto-generate a random password that they can then change.

The login area could run through cookies and aswell as sessions to process and log their login. You could then use php to display all the lovely "Hello [username] prompts' There are some already pre-built solutions here: http://php.resourceindex.com/

[steven21]

Easiest way would be to set up a secure folder (via Helm) and hide those pages you want to rescrict access to behind that. The major problem though is you would need to manually set up each account via helm - depends on how many users you are talking about? :whistle:


is there a tutorial in Helm for this? - actually and would it let the committee members add documents to these pages?

[Piercy]

is there a tutorial in Helm for this? - actually and would it let the committee members add documents to these pages?
Steve

Link for tutorial here (https://www.csnewmediasupport.co.uk/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=83&nav=0,18,19).

If you want to add documents you could just set up an application behind the folder that will allow you to upload/download documents etc.

Couple of links for these (most can just be uploaded without any config but are asp!!)

Webexplorer (http://www.gleamtech.com/products/wexlite.asp)

Easy content manager (http://www.xs4all.nl/~blokdyk/) (I use this one)

Fuzzy duck (http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk/fuzzyduckexplorer/) (have used and has its own built in security)

all have builtin upload comms as well.