Login, password and surveys....

[Guest concorde]

I'm totally new here and very new in HTML...Just discovered NVU recently and I like it. I hope you can help me.I want a build a website with a section protected by a login and a password and I want to accumulate my members info in a database. I've seen many people talking about MySQL. Is that hard to learn ? Is it the best option ? Or is there a software for creating that database ? Also, is it easy to create surveys with HTML/CSS (and analyse data of course) or again is there a software to do that ?Thanks for your help.Mike

[Jack McKalling]

You'd definately need serverside languages when storing data of all users (and when having all accessible for other users).Check out the forums SQL and PHP :(Html can't DO anything, only view something. So you won't be able to store userinput by that language alone. You should take some lessons of the available tutorials They are very easy to read and learn, won't take much time, and, if you're interested in more there are always other tutorials :)To have a login system, you'd need HTML (or Xhtml) to make a page structure, if you want you could apply CSS on the page to have better control over the layout, you'd need at your server support for both PHP and MySQL, which are to script at the server in a safe way and communicate with your database.:blink:Alternatively, you can also use ASP instead of PHP for your serverside language, and Xhtml instead of Html. And finally you might choose for a clientside (at the user's browser) scripting language such as JavaScript or VBScript. Your choice :DI suggest you should begin with only Html and PHP, next start with MySQL

Edited December 8, 2005 by Dan The Prof