Creating a User Managament System

Hi there,

I am trying to build a website with membership. But I do not know much about how to achieve it. Can someone please suggest me any good resources or tutorials for it?

Also, how can make it like this: facebook.com/myprofilepage

I mean when someone registered to the site, I want to give him a page like: mysite.com/newuser something like this. Any idea?

Thank in advance!

Of course, in PHP

 

Since your programming skills seem rather limited you have three options:

1. Learn programming
2. Hire a programmer
3. Install some community software such as SocialEngine or Wordpress + Buddypress

 

Membership systems are fairly easy to create, i would recommend you check out some video tutorials on PHP member base scripts.

As for the profile thing, you can do that but you have to think, what if a use creates the same user name as a folder? Like has the user name called "Includes". You can easily do that with htaccess and PHP.

Or, the other suggestion i have is that you have a page called "profile.php" then code the script so it would be positioned like his "profile.php?id=IDHERE". That is the easiest option for you.

Thanks,

Michael

 

Yes, I am still learning and I am thinking this project as a way to learn new things in PHP and improve my PHP skills. But thanks for your suggestions.

 

Thank you Michael for your suggestion. I am going to try your suggestions.

 

hi guys, i am looking to do this exact thing to make a staff/admin area and they have curtain privileges depending on who is logged in.

how do you make a single page, such as profile.php see who is logged in, like you have put above? profile.php?id=IDHERE

 

I think you didn't get what profile.php?id=IDHERE should do.
It should show profile of user with id IDHERE (1239125 for example)
What are you asking for?

 

basically i need it to go to a 'profile' area when the user logs in. so if a staff member logs in it will only give them access to 'staff things' and admin only 'admin things', however just to make it a lil more complicated, i need individual logins too.

so all in all it needs to have: different login details (usernames) for each user, and for each type of user to have access to only the info they should

 

you have to put access column in your users table and then check it

something like

$check = mysqli_query($connect, "SELECT access FROM users WHERE id = ".$_POST['uid']);
if ($user_Access = mysqli_fetch($connect, $check))
{
 switch ($user_Access)
 {
  case "admin":
   header("Location:admin.php");
  break;
  case "normall_user":
   header("location:profile.php");
  break;
 }
}

PHP:

so in this case, if that row in users table has access column value "admin", so it will redirect admin after logging to admin.php, if it is regular user, it redirects him to profile.
Sorry If I made mistake within mysqli query, because I use only mysql

 

right i understand... thanks a lot!!

 

if you want to have profile like this

mypage.com/G3n3s!s

i would not suggest it. Better would be

mypage.com/profile/G3n3s!s

and you could do that by adding .htaccess file with this content

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule profile/([0-9a-zA-Z-\/\,\.)+ profile.php?username=$1

Code (markup):

and in profile.php you have to check $_GET['username']

BTW there is add_reputation button below my posts, please add it

 

done and again, thank you

 

however, be aware if you want to use it on public, hacckers could hack it easily with this method
you have to learn something about security in php & MYsql queries, SQL injections & XSS attacks

 

it will be installed on a hosted server and will be put behind passwords galore!! no one will be able to access it without knowing the url anyway

 

no one needs url
he can use something like

myssite.com/profile/s' or 1 = 1

and it selects all users. It won't happen in this case but be aware, you really should read some articles about security. It will be Social Network ?

 

no, it will only be accessable by staff. hence why the url will only be given to the staff

 

okay but in that case change admin.php to something like a65sd46as45fse6f45sd65f4s.php so no one can trace it

 

wise idea... will do

 

its not a way to learn anything on forum at beginner level because here everyone just give you an idea rather teach you....

 

yep but he can learn something from our ideas.