Hi Guys

I have been doing websites for a while but never been asked to put a login and password section on before and im stuck - how do you go about this?

I have seen ones where you fill in personal details - give it a password and then you can fill in login and password boxes - how exactly do i go about this?

I need this to be fully automated so users can set the username and password and then get access

Are you familiar with PHP or ASP? How about working with MySQL or Access databases? If you have a basic level of understanding of a server side programming language as well as a database package - what you are asking can be easily accomplished. If this is currently beyond what you are comfortable with - I think your only option is to use password protected directories via htaccess. Of course this is not the automated solution you are looking for, it will require someone managing the logins.

Hi there,

thanks for that - i only have very basic PHP none of the others unfortunatley -
I spotted the .htaccess thing but really need this to be automated...

i am willing to learn the bits i need to get this done - however im not too sure where to start any clues? good websites?

You might want to check out http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/User_Authentication/index.html for lots of login/user scripts