How to Create Website with "Member Login"?

"Terry" <gobeyondgobeyond DeleteThis @yah00.c0m> wrote in message
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 > Hi,
 >
 > I am trying to create a website with an area that is for paid
 > subscribers who pay an annual subscription fee. I'd prefer that each
 > subscriber is assigned a user id and password. I would greatly
 > appreciate some pointers on what is needed to get things started and how
 > to build a site like with minimum programming involved. Also I prefer
 > to stay away from ASP. I'd also like to know which web hosts provide
 > such function as part of their package.
 >
 > Thanks in advance!
 >
 > Terry

Go to the affiliate link at the bottom of my pages and look around the UA2K
site. I think I remember that Steve does a good membership system as well.
Tony
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Terry wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I am trying to create a website with an area that is for paid
 > subscribers who pay an annual subscription fee. I'd prefer that each
 > subscriber is assigned a user id and password. I would greatly
 > appreciate some pointers on what is needed to get things started and
 > how to build a site like with minimum programming involved. Also I
 > prefer to stay away from ASP. I'd also like to know which web hosts
 > provide such function as part of their package.
 >
 > Thanks in advance!
 >
 > Terry

One way to achieve this is to try a CMS such as Mambo. Mambo will handle
registration/login as you require out of the box, and is free. Handling
payment is another matter, but if you managed this side of things manually
(using PayPal or other) you could enable/disable accounts accordingly. If
you require a fully automated payment handling and account management, there
may be a Mambo component that will help. Hope this helps!

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Terry wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I am trying to create a website with an area that is for paid
 > subscribers who pay an annual subscription fee. I'd prefer that each
 > subscriber is assigned a user id and password. I would greatly
 > appreciate some pointers on what is needed to get things started and how
 > to build a site like with minimum programming involved. Also I prefer
 > to stay away from ASP. I'd also like to know which web hosts provide
 > such function as part of their package.
 >
 > Thanks in advance!
 >
 > Terry

I didn't like any of the free ones I found, so I wrote my own in ASP
with a SQLServer database (I know you said you dont like ASP);

Consists of a signin/out page & an edit member page. Records things like
last login, number of times logged in, and date signed up, users
platform & IP address. The sign-in page also uses cookies so that you
can "stay signed in". It took about a week to write and get working
properly, but I'd never tried before.


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You can use .htaccess for this, which may be the easiest route if you're
not comfortable swimming in something like PHP, Perl, etc. You can point
.htaccess to a mysql database. However, the downside is there may be
some server configuration (you need the right apache modules) and odds
are a host either supports this or they don't.

You can even use basic authentication and edit the text files (.htaccess
and its password file) by hand and upload them.

The other route, you need server side scripting like PHP and a database
or flat text files. You need to maintain state somehow (cookies or using
sessions). This route usually involves now server configuration and
offers a lot of flexbility, but there is a lot of programming.

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Terry wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a website with an area that is for paid
> subscribers who pay an annual subscription fee. I'd prefer that each
> subscriber is assigned a user id and password. I would greatly
> appreciate some pointers on what is needed to get things started and how
> to build a site like with minimum programming involved. Also I prefer
> to stay away from ASP. I'd also like to know which web hosts provide
> such function as part of their package.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Terry
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