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Oli Filth
....D. said:Can someone explain to me or at le3ast point me the right place to look?
Keep in mind though HTML standard stuff I can do, this is all foreign to
me.
I want to have a login page that refers to a list of valid IDs (or however
it is handled) to allow access to a couple of web pages that would be
viewable to only a successful login.
How is all of this handled? Would I manually have to put the user's ID or
email address into a list (probably best in this case) or could the
process be automated too, like craigslist does in sending you an email &
you have to click on the link to validate yourself?
Yea I know I am getting into some heavier stuff here, but I've got to
learn this.
You're right, this is beyond the scope of HTML. You're basically asking
about something which requires server-side processing. Depending on what
your server provides, you could do this in ASP, PHP, Perl, or a few
other alternatives. For simple things like validating against a list of
users, any of these languages would be very easy to pick up assuming you
have some competence with programming languages in general.
e.g. http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php for a simple PHP tutorial.