Webpage Question

PowerHouseDan

I am making a web page,and was wondering how to make a login page, ie when the box appears and looks for a user name and password anybody able to help me out

RobertFoster

for the front end you need a simple form.

backend you need another "language" other than HTML and you need a database. I use PHP and MySQL.

I think there are programs out there that'll do it for you...phpnuke.org I think can do it. not used it myself.

daveyjoe

If you're server doesn't have any server side Programming languages (PHP, ASP, JSP etc..) then you can make a Html and Javascript password protector. But Server side is obviously more secure.

Civilian_Target

Yes, because they can't, for example, just disable javascript, read the password out of the HTML file and then re-enable it.

You need PHP or somesuch to do that stuff.

eggshapedfred

do you want people to have an account or do you just want to restrict access to certain parts of the website from general viewing?

if its the latter then using a .htaccess file in the directory that you want to keep private will probably do the trick. try googling htaccess or look here