tabath Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I'm helping a friend out with a website. I know html and am teaching myself javascript at the moment but need some advice on other things I need to know to complete the project. Its basic site but my friend also wants to add a facility to allow people to register as members in order to download pdfs and some exe files. He would also like the ability to keep track of who has downloaded what. It is not necessary for the members to register themselves - he would input and maintain the register of members himself. Any pointers about what I need to know in order to accomplish this would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Sounds like you'll need to learn a scripting language for the web, and possibly some basic SQL. A very popular option which I found easy to learn is PHP and MySQL. Registration pages are pretty simple since you write HTML form tags in your .php file which should post to itself, check if the forum was competed, and give out the PDF files while inserting the info into an SQL table. Aside from php.net I found phpbuilder.com to be a great resource. I'd also check hotscripts and sourceforge to see if there is existing code you can modify. And as always, there are plenty of tools for the job so I'm sure someone will chime in and mention perl, ruby, python, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 Thanks for the reply. I have SQL experience so I 'll take a look at Php and follow the other leads you have given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 I'm wanting to test my php scripts locally - what setup would you use on a windows machine? I am trying Xampp at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I highly recommend xampp. It may seem odd at first but the way it handles all of the services is quite intelligent. I've used it before when demoing code on call for help and its never let me down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 Thanks . I'll stick with it then :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Python! Python! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 Really am loving xampp - W/Lamp in a box - really has let me concentrate on actually learning the php rather than spending time setting up a Lamp server - although that is next on the list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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