paulbell Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 My apologies in advance if my request is vague.....but I'm treading water here. What I need to do is to create a secured website whereby users will log in and have, among some other fluff, the ability to download files, some of which will be generic to all of them and some of which will be very specific to each one of them. For the login system, I would like users to be able to self-register; we will maintain a MySQL table of eligible users with some verifying info and the login system will handle the verification before allowing them to create an account (I figure this is probably not difficult to do and I've been tinkering with a few login and authentication systems for the past bit). The files for them to download will change probably monthly or so. I would like to enable my internal folks to upload those files so being able to do so in bulk is important. For simplicity, we'll probably just push all the files up there whether the user account has been created or not. I imagine we will also probably need to update a table with file info, at least based on some stuff I've been Googlling. For this reason I've been slightly leaning toward keeping the files in a flat folder on the server somewhere with a strict naming convention, and using a bit of (maybe) URL obfuscation tomfoolery to keep folks from being able to get to each others' stuff.... Obviously I am wide open to suggestions on just about all aspects of this....but I do want to make sure the files are next-to-impossible to get to unless authorized. Suggestions, nudges, code samples, philosophical treatises, all help is welcome. This seems like a pretty common thing for folks to do so I'm sure there are many approaches. Thanks in advance for tolerating my general ignorance on these topics. At my disposal is an Ubuntu 8.10 server and as many as three Windows machines should I need them (as well as VMWARE so additional Ubuntu machines are pretty easy). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/153925-n00b-lost-in-the-woods-need-to-create-site-for-downloads/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdRock Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 take a look here....it's a good starting point and there is a membership system tutorial you could use. http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/site_map.php Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/153925-n00b-lost-in-the-woods-need-to-create-site-for-downloads/#findComment-809037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 And u plan to do this without any knowledge of PHP? Grab a tutotial/book Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/153925-n00b-lost-in-the-woods-need-to-create-site-for-downloads/#findComment-809038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulbell Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 And u plan to do this without any knowledge of PHP? Grab a tutotial/book I do have some rudimentary PHP knowledge....and pointers to said books and tutorials are helpful. The login system I pretty well have covered; at this point it's serving up the files that I need the most help with. EDIT -- I'm also happy to entertain shrink-wrapped solutions. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/153925-n00b-lost-in-the-woods-need-to-create-site-for-downloads/#findComment-809079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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