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Advice needed

by Madame_Imm
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Hi all, I have been looking over the forum to try and find an answer to my question, but have not seen anything. My apologies if I have overlooked it and I'm asking a question that's already been asked.

If that is the case, please direct me to the link.

So yes my question is this.

I would like to make a membership website, but not sure how about to do the entry page with the log in details (name/password) and to make them work. I know about setting up recurring billing and all of that, its just the webpage and login info set up that has me totally stumped.

I don't have an IT background, so it's why I'm feeling lost.

Any advice or pointer in the right direction would be really appreciated.
#advice #needed
  • Profile picture of the author procoach
    Hi,

    You can either
    1. hire someone to do it for you
    2. buy a package that does this for you

    If you hurry, you can by the Butterfly Marketing Script for free (you just pay s/h) Otherwise, AMember is a very capable package that's reasonably priced.

    Checking around in this forum (WSO, Classified, etc.) might also unearth other packages.

    HTH.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adaptive
    You will need some Web server code and some database functionality.

    The Web server should provide a login form to all users. It's up to you if there is a free portion of the site that can be seen without purchase.

    When the login form is filled out, a server side script queries the database to find if the user name and password pair correspond to an entry in the database. If no valid match is found, the Web server generates a new Web page with an error message and another login form. If a valid match is found, the Web server redirects to the private content area of the site according to the user account information in the database. Along with the first page shown inside the restricted-content area, the Web server sends a cookie indicating the session ID. If the cookie comes back from the same IP address before the session expiration time, the login form is skipped and the user immediately sent to the private content area.

    Some frameworks such as ASP.Net provide all of this functionality for you, if you write your pages within their framework. Or you can find either free or commercial libraries to do the same thing, if you'd prefer not to build your own. I haven't purchased Butterfly Marketing, but my understanding is that includes both a script for membership sites, and a tutorial about how to use the script to build online businesses.

    What programming technologies are available to you on your server?

    Regards,
    Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard Whyte
    Don't just use some HTML password page junk.....

    You need a decent script that checks the Session.... Else, someone can link directly to a page inside of your member area and anyone can follow it... When you check the session, what that means is that if a non-member attempts to get to a page inside the member area, it sends them back out to the log in page....

    ASP.net and PHP are two good ways to do this. I prefer PHP myself with a MySQL database in the background..... Depends on your hosting package and features available to you.

    Have a Great Day!
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