Setting up a community group

Database

[jayjayjay]

Hi All,

I'm a novice in web designing and I've been wanting and needing to create a login script for my website. I want to build a community group where people log in with a username and password which will be stored using access (for now, once i get the hang of doing this, i will switch to mysql).

I was wondering if there's any old postings to help me do this? I'll be using javascript and microsoft access for now but I wanted to know how I can link my script to my database so I can store or check information on the user.

Thanks much,
Jay

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, jayjayjay!

You will need to use a server side script to do this. Access has ODBC communication 'drivers' that allow you to access it from a server side page. Languages like ASP or JSP or PHP will allow you build such a page.

There are a number of free scrip archives out there that you could use a script from, and there are lots and lots of tutorial sites that will help you to learn how to build a page like this yourself.

HTH

[killroy]

Regards web development, it's an illusion that starting with access is easy, and moving to mysql later harder... I've worked with access a long time ago, and mysql more recently, and I found it much simpler and less complex then access at any time!

SN

[jayjayjay]

Thanks BlobFisk and Killroy. Since I posted this, I'll do some search on Google for such scripts. I will also take your suggestions and look at MySql now rather than later...I figured I'd learn MySql since it's more widely used and probably better than Access. No need to waste time learning Access...

Thanks again!