Thread: Creating a login site......

I want to build a website where users can register and have access to my whole site.

I will then make it that under this log in, the user can access the forum, blog (comment on), question & answer section (like yahoo answers), the photo gallery (upload, view, comment and vote on images and be in the newsletter database.

How can I learn how to do this?

If I am using myBB, Wordpress and similar scripts for all these features, what programming language do i need to know?

I would appreciate your help and if you have any useful links, please post them here.

Edit: would this be of any help to me? Prasi - project website

Edit2: found another link: http://www.evolt.org/PHP-Login-Syste...Admin-Features do you think I will be able to link this to myBB, wordpress etc?

There is a number of CMS's (content management system) that will do that for you!

Maybe its time to move to a different kind of php script, so you wouldnt have to learn much more than what you already know!

phpFusion, joomla, mambo, are just a few that should do the trick, check out a bunch of CMS's and figure out which one will work for you!

Originally Posted by LeenkzMike

There is a number of CMS's (content management system) that will do that for you!

Maybe its time to move to a different kind of php script, so you wouldnt have to learn much more than what you already know!

phpFusion, joomla, mambo, are just a few that should do the trick, check out a bunch of CMS's and figure out which one will work for you!

That is not what I am asking, I want a SSO (single sign on) so a user can sign in and have access to my whole site (consisting of several different scripts including myBB, wordpress and others.

I see your point, but why go that way, when a script like phpFusion for example, provides a Forum, Blog, FAQ, Gallery, etc, all under one roof?

Originally Posted by LeenkzMike

I see your point, but why go that way, when a script like phpFusion for example, provides a Forum, Blog, FAQ, Gallery, etc, all under one roof?

I will use that as a last resort, is there anyone who can help me with my original questions?

Thanks

Suit yourself!

Do mean to say that the users must login and access your content and files to your site?

It would be better it you would elaborate what you actually want and how you want.. may be you can show us an live example.. (if any?!)

Originally Posted by zeus

Do mean to say that the users must login and access your content and files to your site?

It would be better it you would elaborate what you actually want and how you want.. may be you can show us an live example.. (if any?!)

LOL, my explanation can't get much better, I want to link different scripts under a single login.

Personally, I'd go with Mike's suggestion. Use a single script for all features. You can find plugins/add-ons for all the components if the base script is powerful enough.

On the other hand... if you must use unrelated scripts, you'll need to know PHP and MySQL. PHP for the front-end login and stuff, and MySQL to unify the user accounts. You'd have to look up tutorials to integrate the relevant scripts, too.

Another option would be to use OpenID

Yeah.. exactly.. Why cant you go with Joomla? Its a good option..!

I have decided to start out just having a blog and a forum which are not SSO.

When I eventually learn PHP/MySQL I will be able to make some changes.

Somewhere in this topic, there's a wordpress-mybb bridge.

Originally Posted by joseph

Somewhere in this topic, there's a wordpress-mybb bridge.

I saw that however it duplicates the blog posts in the forum.

Oh... I just skipped through to the last page and saw that the next version will be sharing user ids. You could use it then, and duplicate the posts into a hidden forum. But since that's going to be only in the next version, you could figure out the sign-in integration in the meantime, without using the bridge.

Originally Posted by GameOver

When I eventually learn PHP/MySQL I will be able to make some changes.

I'd suggest you learn to program right now. That way you'll be able to make the your site exactly how you want it.

I agree. You should definiately learn to start programming. Although, for the question you first asked. You can make a universal login script. It definitely won't be 'one' login, but will appear to do so. This isn't an easy task per say, but not too difficult for someone who has a general grasp on what needs to go on. You can surely ask us if you need anything!

Why can't he just do whatever he wants in the site and use a password protect on the site, therefore giving everyone a single login? Maybe I'm confused now...its been known to happen :P

Well I guess Kaos that depends on how you wanted to do that. I'm good on all of the .htaccess user login popups.

From what I understand he wants to have each user a seperate username and password but using that username and password be able to post to blogs, view the site and upload to his gallery.

htaccess wouldn't do all this as they would still need multiple logins.

depending on the scripts you are using you might just be able to set the cookie variables or session variables and create your own registration script.

However I would like to point out that even for us advanced programmers "roping" multiple systems together is a nightmare so you will find it difficult to do and if you have no programming experience at all I wouldn't suggest even trying!

there are reasons why you would use seperate systems, main reason SEO but thats the only reason I can think of right now lol

As a beginner you can go with joomla in such CMS options ...alot of modules are also available for such type of Open Source Content Management System...
If you are an expert in php you can get some paid or free CMS scripts to get you completely Private...lol