Password protected site construction

[Drae]

Am I right in thinking that if I wanted to build a website that is password protected, I would need javascript to create the password specific bits? Would I also need to know sql?

[niche]

You could I suppose, but your users would have access to your code. Hence, no security imo. I'd use php (it's free) instead of javascript, plus mysql.

[Ingolme]

Javascript cannot password protect a site. You need a server-side language like PHP, ASP.NET or Java.

 

There's also .htaccess password protection methods, though you can only have a limited number of "accounts" with that.

[Drae]

Thanks guys!

 

I'm learning javascript slowly at the moment and will be learning php after, so for the time being I'll tell my client of some other options. Thanks again!