Hi . I want a members area on my site where people who register can then connect with other members privately if they wish, so once registered they login and are taken to a page which displays all members email addresses, web address. Nothing fancy really, just not sure of the best way to do it. Any advise would be much appreciated. Take Care Lisa
I'm not sure what is your level of knowledge right now, but you have to start to learn some PHP programming. Once you're done with basics you have to know how to work with MySQL. You want something simple, but if you start to learn from scratch you may need anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks to learn the way, depending on how fast you learn. If you never programmed anything than you may have a harder time to learn. You must search for a book, read and exercise with the example in the book, remember, only working you will learn. I reccomend John Wiley & Sons - PHP For Dummies book. If you know how to search on the web you can find a tutorial that do exactly what you need. The above way is complicated, if you don't have enough passion to finish it there is a very high chance that you will give up when things won't work as expected. A better way is to use things already done, you can search on http://www.hotscripts.com for php scripts for "membership" sites, you may find something light that you can modify as you want, or, use a content management system and you have almost no coding to do. You can install wordpress, change the settings so anyone can register and then install "profiler" plugin so all you members can see a list with all other members. Some tweak still to be done to do what you want but it takes practically no time for a php programmer, so ask someone to help you. If you really want to learn and you want to invest a lot of time in it, go the first way, if you just want to get the job done go with the second. To get started with wordpress you can read more at http://www.flamescorpion.com there are some resouurces to know how to start with wordpress.
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