Uploading to website.

[magickfirebird]

I am working on a website for my family that we may use to show/sell our craft items on. I'm looking for a way that they may upload their information to their web page. Any help/direction is appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[justsomeguy]

You need a CMS, like Wordpress, unless you want to learn the programming skills necessary to build something yourself.

[magickfirebird]

I would like to learn more on the programming skills needed for this.

 

Thank you.

[justsomeguy]

There's a fair amount of work to learn everything for that, but you can start with the PHP tutorial on the site. After the tutorial you might want to get one or two books specifically about working with PHP and MySQL. Just make sure you're getting the latest edition of those books, older PHP books are likely to contain a lot of bad code by today's standards.

[magickfirebird]

Thank you for the information. A few years ago I took online classes to receive a "degree" which included web design. It hit on the different coding languages in a short time frame. Now I am trying to put the steps together to achieve the outcome that I want. I think what I need to help is an outline of the steps to get to where I am going. At this point the short outline would be a sign-in page, then they can go to their web page and up load pic and descriptions. That's how it looks on their end. On my end I know there are more steps. They would need to register which would set up a file (MySQL) so that when they sign in PHP would check if they are registered and accept that they are allowed to make changes. Then I would have to create their page with areas for them to upload their pics and areas for their text.

 

Am I on the right track so far? My host does have an area for MySQL users and for FTP users. I haven't noticed an area for MySQL files.

 

Thank you.

[justsomeguy]

That's generally the right track. There's a lot to learn about good security with regard to logging in and registering users, don't accept any tutorial that tells you to store passwords in plain text or even just a simple hash using something like MD5 or SHA-1. PHP has functions specifically for handling passwords that older tutorials or books wouldn't use (in fact, a lot of tutorials are written by people who don't know what they're doing themselves and contain bad information - if you're in doubt, post a link and have someone review it).As far as MySQL goes, you don't create files with it, it's a database server. You design and create the database structure and then insert, update, or delete records in the database.

[magickfirebird]

Thank you. I've put a few pages of my site together and am now back to working on the page for family to upload onto. Heading to PHP and seeing if I can put the information together. Thanks.