[thelist] creating client section, password protected

[Burhan Khalid]

Christy Collins wrote:

> My experience does not extend far beyond html and css.
> 
> I am doing a trade with a graphic designer that I do some work with.  
> She has a side business making invitations and wants a website.  She 
> wants to have a password protected section where her clients can log in 
> and see her progress on their invitations.
> 
> The way to do that within the realm of my experience would be to create 
> a protected directory for each client, then send an e-mail to each 
> client that would contain the url to their directory and their username 
> and password.
> 
> The snazzy way would be to have a login on her homepage where the user 
> enters in their username and password and then is taken to their 
> corresponding progress page.
> 
> So what technologies should I be looking at for the snazzy way?  Is 
> there a way to do it without getting involved with databases, which I 
> know very little about?  Any articles or tutorials about this sort of 
> thing would be appreciated.

Try this zend tutorial[1] for a great start. Probably will give you all 
the code you need.

If you are after a more robust solution -- you can give phpprojekt[2] a try.

I would also consider Basecamp[3] which looks promising, but is not free 
although at $19/month -- looks like well worth the price.

--
Burhan

[1] http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/authentication.php
[2] http://www.phprojekt.com
[3] http://www.basecamphq.com