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[SolitarySoul]

Hello all.  I'm pretty new to PHP so I apologize if I'm asking this in the wrong section here.

 

Anyway, I run a small gaming clan website and there's several features I'm wanting to add using PHP.  I've been reading through the tutorials here and other websites such as w3schools for a while now, so I'm getting the hang of the basics, but I'm not so sure where to go from here as far as using what I'm learning to develop the little features to my site that I'm wanting to make.

 

One of the bigger things I'm wanting to create, if possible, is I'm wanting the members of our gaming clan to be able to log in on the website and add info to their own mini-profile (such as upload a picture, write a bio, basic form stuff I know how to create ... just not sure how to tell it to upload the info to the members page upon hitting submit).  The main concern I have though is that if it is possible, I am wanting to allow for the members to log in using their forum ID and password.  We have SMF (simple machines) forums installed on our web host so it's all in one place on the same website.  Would I be able to build a login panel on the pages of the site which would check for the same info as the forums do?  And if so, my biggest concern is would I be able to allow just particular users on our forums to be able to do this?  Reason being not all of our forum members are actual members of the gaming clan, they are just visiting friends who have made an account, so we don't want those people to be able to log in on the website to add a profile to the members page.

 

Not sure how clear that is I'm in a bit of a hurry   Thanks for any help or advice you can offer though, I'd really like to learn how to code this stuff on my own, I'm just not too sure where to go from here.

 

Thanks.

[clown[NOR]]

concerning the part about not all forum members are a member of your clan,  you can make a forum group only for you clan members.. that way you might be able to sort them out easier...

 

when it comes to the login and all of that... i'm not sure if i understood you right, but if i did.. you want to add a login section on your main page for you clan members, using the database from the forum?

 

if that's the case you probably need to take a look at the forum database and take a look at the fields and what kind of info you get from there, and try and insert that info to a profile page.. =)

 

sorry if that explenation was bad, but I actually have no really good idea... just wrote down what popped into my head at the time =)

 

but it sounded pretty logic to me =)