Starting From Scratch w/DB

I need to create an account login.

[rjmaster19]

I am starting up a website for myself, and I want to restrict access to certain pages with a login.

I *believe* the way to go about this is with a database, but I don't really know where to start from. I'm pretty sure I want to use PHP and MySQL, but maybe there is something easier out there?

I'm good with HTML decent with JavaScript, but really my forte is C++. Any ideas on how to get started?

TIA!

[physics]

For a quick (and good) access restriction program you can use .htaccess:
[colostate.edu...]

And yes this can be done with PHP and a database, though it may be overkill if you only want to use PHP and the database for this. See
[devshed.com...]

[rjmaster19]

thanks! appreciate it.