Hello i'm making a program to get the names of users on my website and use that log for my programs so only registered people can login. How would I go about doing this?
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A:
It sounds like you're paying too much attention to the choice of tools you're going to use, before you know what you're going to do. What I would suggest is:
Decide what you want to do. If you're going to authenticate logins against a user list of some sort, state exactly what you want to do.
Once you know what you want to do, decide how you are going to do it. Have a look at other solutions, such as HTTP Basic authentication, or using cookies, or some other method, and decide which method is best for your needs.
Once you have a thorough understanding of how you want to implement your solution, you can decide on which tools you would like to use. Again, evaluation of other existing solutions will help you in this decision.
Implement your solution, following your plan in (2).
Greg Hewgill
2009-05-30 00:46:44
I agree with you and Wim. The OP doesn't seem to have a handle on exactly what they want to do /or/ how they want to do it. Some obvious questions are, "Where is the user list?", and "What are the roles of the planned C++ tool and the PHP code?"
Matthew Flaschen
2009-05-30 01:02:05