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Hi, I'm new here, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it is PHP code that I need to create accounts (requiring usernames and passwords) on a website?

Thanks!
-Hazzy

Yes and no.

Well as far as html is concerned, it is basically only a language which both server and browser can understand not a programming language. So basically for making a script for member management, you will need some scripting language. So PHP, ASP and JSP and many others are some such languages.

So you will need PHP for it, but it is not necessary to make it only on PHP.

OK, thanks!

I'll look for some tutorials on it

for tutorilas on PHP or HTML try searching in google for both for some good tutorials

If you don't have time, you can also use basic http authentication (.htaccess):

http://codesorcery.net/authentication/htaccess.html

Your server must allow .htaccess editing though (I think SH allows)

You could also take a look at "PHP & MySQL for dummies" it considers two examples, the one beeing a member site like you are talking about

I have written a simple register and login system in PHP for my forum script. I could probably let you have the register and login pages if you still need them though.

Heh that's pretty complicated, but you'll need to know some php skills...php sessions work really well as an alternative to cookies...

so we can create a little community?

uz wrote:so we can create a little community?

What do you mean by that? When you mean by community are you saying community like a message board because that is incredible difficult to do.