Php Website

crackafaza · July 29th, 2008, 04:38 AM

Hi all,

For my company I am building a dating website, using PHP, and as I only know the real basics in it, this task is going to be a tought, but experience learning one.

Right, first off, I have created the simple register, and login form for my website, but it is confusing me how I would go about once they are registered, and then they sign in, how does it send to there own page not someone elses?

Is there any tutorials out there? or can anyone help?

Thanks
Craig

dangergeek · July 29th, 2008, 05:10 AM

You need to look in to sessions and cookies. Also a mysql database is essential to store the users details.

I'd cut some corners and use Joomla which has dating extensions that can be added.

crackafaza · July 29th, 2008, 05:16 AM

Thanks for the input, I realised that a MySql database was needed, because I have one implemented already.

I know I could easily use CMS's that would work a charm, but I would prefer to create it from scratch so that I am learning loads in the process.

So you say cookies and sessions, do you have any tutorials about this that would become handy to me?

luv2php · July 29th, 2008, 05:30 AM

http://w3schools.com/php/php_cookies.asp

http://w3schools.com/php/php_sessions.asp

those are a couple great beginner tuts on how to use sessions and cookies.
php.net is a nice place to find information about them as well, or anything dealing with php for that matter...

crackafaza · July 29th, 2008, 05:33 AM

Ok, I will have a more in depth look at them in a moment, but what comes first? where is the code written? is it written when they register? sign in? what, because I am a little confused and lost.

dangergeek · July 29th, 2008, 05:41 AM

I also use tizag for easy to understand instruction http://www.tizag.com/phpT/

When someone logs in their id is written to the 'session'. At the top of every page you recall the session id (very much like parsing a submitted form). So each page remembers the user's id and can display the relevant data.