Members only website

[rgeorgan]

I have a website that is going to have viewers register, and then login each time they come to view the site - each html page must be protected so that only registered members can access the pages. There are million websites like this...

I would really appreciate it if some one could point me towards a good resource or give any advice for how to so this using FM.

Thanks in advance...

[Garry Claridge]

I believe that using PHP with FM gives you the best chance to protect all your pages this way.

Garry

[Steve T.]

Howdy! IMO, FileMaker is not a good choice for user-specific records "when it matters". FM lets you control the LEVEL of access, but I found it very difficult to control record-specific access based on logins/passwords. Garry's suggestion of using PHP takes the login/password issue out of FileMaker's hands and lets you control access from your own system but this requires programming skills.

Of course, you can do some things totally within FileMaker, but it'd be locking your front door and leaving your windows unlocked. Someone who does more than just trying the front door will be able to get in. So, it really depends on how secure it has to be. I needed to be sure, so I shelved my FM web calendar project and re-wrote it for PHP/MySQL.

--ST