Login Tutorial

[The Little Guy]

I made a login tutorial, and I was wondering, if you could give me your feed back on the tutorial?

 

- bugs

- errors

- comments

 

 

Tutorial Link

 

Thanks.

[TheFilmGod]

You should do a tutorail on a 1 page login page and another page to register.

 

- It would be a lot easier to make and understand. AND more useful.

 

The thing that makes me really hate the tutorial is this:

 

If you don't understand the form, then you probably don't want to continue, because it starts to get harder. If that is the case, please go to w3schools.com  to learn about forms, otherwise lets continue.

 

Instead of explaining what the purpose of the code is to the users you instead tell them to figure it out themselves. This is a no - no since they will leave your website and never come back. Instead, create another tutorial on html forms! 

[GingerRobot]

The thing that makes me really hate the tutorial is this:

 

If you don't understand the form, then you probably don't want to continue, because it starts to get harder. If that is the case, please go to w3schools.com  to learn about forms, otherwise lets continue.

 

Instead of explaining what the purpose of the code is to the users you instead tell them to figure it out themselves. This is a no - no since they will leave your website and never come back. Instead, create another tutorial on html forms! 

 

Personally, i completely disagree. The tutorial is aimed at helping people make a php based login system. You cannot spend time explainging the things which are not suppoed to be covered. Not only is there the problem that you will alienate the target audience who would quickly get bored with the level the tutorial is at, but where do you stop? Someone, somewhere, will not understand everything covered by the tutorial on forms. Do you then explain this is more and more detail?

[Daniel0]

I agree with GingerRobot. I think it's perfectly okay to require some sort of prerequisites. How else would you create advanced or intermediate tutorials if you require ANY user to understand everything (even people who haven't seen a PHP script before)?