Issuing Passwords

I want to have a page on my site where users can "sign-up" and recieve a
password. For example, they go to the sign-up page, type their name and email,
submit, get an email with a "global" password in it, and then be able to use
their name and password to access a "secure" page.

Can anyone point me toward any good scripts/PHP/etc for doing this? I see this
all the time in forums for signing up new users. I want to be able to do the
same thing, but instead of adding them to a forum, I want to allow them access
to a downloads page (after they sign-up).

Help and suggestions welcome. Laymans terms appriciated.

Are you using database authentication? (Username, pw stored in a database)
If so, you could just allow them to choose their own password.

Is sounds to me like you only have one password for the secure area. In
that case you could use ASPMail or ASPEmail to mail that information to
the user. But, if your server does not support ASP, you would have to
use a cgi script.

The first thing to do is find out what your server supports. Then you
can decide what to do. I have one site that I was forced to use a CGI
script. Since I am not used to CGI, I was not found of doing that, lol.
All my other sites use ASPMail. Is is very easy to learn and very reliable.


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Steven K. Lewis
Website Nation, LLC
Website Development Services
www dot Website Nation dot com


On 8/27/2004 2:19 PM, ShoobieRat wrote:

I want to have a page on my site where users can "sign-up" and recieve a
password. For example, they go to the sign-up page, type their name and email,
submit, get an email with a "global" password in it, and then be able to use
their name and password to access a "secure" page.

Can anyone point me toward any good scripts/PHP/etc for doing this? I see this
all the time in forums for signing up new users. I want to be able to do the
same thing, but instead of adding them to a forum, I want to allow them access
to a downloads page (after they sign-up).

Help and suggestions welcome. Laymans terms appriciated.