how to create register and login page

hi,

i'm setting up a B2B website to showcase our products.

my requirement are as follows:
1) setting up product pages with details like product code, size, color,
description (with price coloumn greyed out) so that user can view our range.
2) if user need to know our price, they have to register with us (and choose
their username and preferred password)with their details and contacts.
3) their details are then sent back to me and i will activate their password
to login.
4) they will then able to login to view our product catalogue but this time,
the price will be viewable.

how can the above be done?

please note that i'm only familiar with basic setup of webpage using
dreamweaver and have no experience in database etc.

is there any website tutorial that can guide me along?

by the way , i've ms access but still figuring out how to use

thanks for your helps.
cheers.
3)

I am still new to Dreamweaver but not to programing. A good place for you to
start is

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html

This site will show you just about anything you need to know about programing
a database. It really is not hard you build you database in mySQL and work it
with PHP.

Good Luck
Leonard

hi,

thanks for the lead.

i've read the articles and bet it's very useful. but writing script is
completely alien to me.
i guess it's just pretty difficult to achieve what i wanna do by myself

hope someone can help me better understand how this system work with more
layman term.
(sorry for being so stupid).

thanks

On 7/13/04 8:41 AM, in article cd0oq4$erv$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com,
"pullover" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

(sorry for being so stupid).

Don't be. It gives the rest of us the illusion that we might actually know
something. 8^)

Also, if it is a small site, an easier and hopefully temporary solution to
your problem might be as follows:

Since you will activate the login and password yourself, consider making the
register form submit a "formmail.cgi" request. "Formmail" has been around
forever and the latest version is very attack resistant. It mails the
request to you and you follow up.

Next, check the control panel for your site and set a directory password for
a sub-directory that contains the unrestricted pages that are not public.

When you receive an email registration, simply email the appropriate login
and password back to the user. Once a user is in that directory, he has
access to all pages in that directory.

Sure, it's not as elegant as writing your own routine. But then, it doesn't
require you to be a web guru either.

Even on a site that is not secure, this method is probably as secure or more
secure than writing your own login/password routine.

Drawback - Since your ISP may place a limit on how many individual users you
may assign, you will probably be limited to setting the same login/password
for all visitors. This makes tracking visitors more difficult, but that's
where cookies come in. If the user doesn't have cookies enabled, then he
will just have to enter his information every time he makes a purchase or
sends feedback.

Again, I am assuming, from the wording of your question, that this is a
smaller site, where you can get away with things like this, until business
increases and you can learn the necessary programming requirements.

Not elegant. But, it provides limited functionality, until you need more. I
do not recommend this as a permanent method, though I know of many small
sites that have used it for years.

John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)

Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.