ASP Login/Profiles

CharlieSheen

Hi all,

first time posting in this thread but....
Please help me!!

I need to create a login/profile system for my website
Using visual studio/asp.net and the built in sql server express

i.e so when I log in, I go to my profile
Jim logins in and goes to his profile etc

Then admin logs in and it goes to the admin page etc...

Anyone could provide a link to code or a helpful tutorial online?

The built in asp.net configuration isn't really what I was looking for!

Please help me if you can!its for a project thats due really,really soon!

Thanks
Charlie

Seth Brundle

Are you using a database with your site?
Have a table of users with username/password/userlevels.

When a user logs in it grabs their userlevel and redirects them based on their userlevel.
See http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread6028.html for example

CharlieSheen

Thanks a million

Is there any way I could do it C# instead of visual basic?
I'm not good with C# code,but using this in the rest of my project

Seth Brundle

1. Do you know C#?
2. What else have you managed to do if you aren't good wth C#
3. Ignore the code in the link I supplied - what is more important is the logic within it (or any of the 200,000 similar tutorials out there).

I would recommend reading up on session variables. Then based on the users userlevel session variable, when they login, the page redirects to the appropriate URl (e.g. admin.aspx or profile.aspx) depending on whether their userlevel is "admin" or "normal"; 1 or 2; or whatever. However, note that this may result in your site only having one administrator account (if they all redirect to admin.aspx)

Once you have become more familiar with this stuff, then look up password encryption, hashing and salts.

I would also look up SQL injection and escaping characters being passed to the database.

More importantly, I don't know what the site is for but is there an expectation that this will be secure. Then ask yourself, will it be?
What database are you using?

CharlieSheen

Thanks for all your help,got code off someone earlier and have figured it out.thanks!