Where to start?

[cjreal]

Hello,

 

I am thinking of making a new member panel for my website. It will mean that the following plan can happen:

 

1). The user signs up:

Database needs to feed back wether the name has been taken or not

Automatically create a user ID (seperate, consiquental)

Send a link for the user to verify via e-mail

 

[There is a credit system, where credits cost £3.50 each, and you can get 1 credit for refering other people]

 

2). The member panel:

If the person logs in they can:

Refer people: An e-mail form where they can type subject and message, there is a link already there with their referal number

Refer people sign up: If the people they refer sign up, then a message is sent to admin e-mail... when they buy/get credits, a message is again sent to admin

Lottery: People can buy tickets, there are 2 numbers to choose from 1-50, their numbers are sent to admin e-mail. Tickets cost 1 credit each.

Points: They can see how many points they have

Claim prize: When they select an option, a certain amount of credits are taken, and an e-mail is sent to admin to say what they have ordered, and their ID.

 

3). Admin user, where they can add, or remove credits from a persons' account. They can also draw the lottery, which is automatically posted on the member panel home page.

 

 

Where could I learn to do this?

 

Thank you for your time,

CJ

[BigBobby]

http://www.codebeach.com/tutorials/developing-login-system-php-mysql.asp

 

Thats a good tutorial think it is a good start, you can always build on that

 

EDIT:

 

Also found this:

 

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Creating-a-Login-Script-for-a-PHPMySQL-Blogging-System/

 

its a blogging thing but it has all the things you require unlike on the above one which has no admin feature.