How can I have people join my site as users???

Question

I want to make a website for a murder mystery game kinda like My Dark Secret but I want to make mine from scratch and have people sign up as users to my site and have their own page and stuff like myspace. Anyone know how I can do that?? I know HTML & CSS by the way. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

easiest way is to do it with .NET or PHP and a database.

Answer 2

If you want to write a login system from scratch then you'll need to know PHP and MySQL.

But, why reinvent the wheel?..  Although it is always a good idea to do all your own coding, you could also opt to use a third party script to handle logins.  If you don't know PHP and MySQL this is probably the best bet since the scripts are probably made by someone that knows what they are doing and they will probably be more secure.  Check out Hotscripts for some free user authentication and/or user management scripts:

• User Authentication :: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...

• User Management :: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...

Personally, on my website I have a phpBB forum and I just integrate the rest of my web site with that login which is easily achieved with a couple lines of code in your PHP files that will check and see if the user is logged into phpBB and if not will redirect them to the login page.