Help w/ self-generating websites

[deziner]

Hi All,

I'm new here, and am seeking an answer to a specific question. I'm not even sure if I'm in the right forum.

I am a web DESIGNER, not a developer, and I've just received a request by a potential customer who wants a website where his visitors/customers can make a payment through PayPal, and then be directed to creating a username and password. Now that's the easy part. Right? Beyond that, what he wants is for a website to be automatically generated for the new customer who has just paid a fee and signed up. I suppose this would mean automatically generating a new web address under his hosting plan, as well as the immediate display of a new carbon copied site for the new user to utilize and access.

Obviously, I may need to call a developer for this project, but I would like to prepare the customer by sounding like I have a clue what language and process would be involved in creating this function for him.

Could any of you out there give me a leg up?

Thanks,

Sherry

[CrazyGaz]

if it is automatically generated for each customer then you could use a database to store their information, then from the database you could read back the information and display it that way.

another way would be to create a HTML page for example CrazyGaz.html when I join up. Then when I join it takes the relevent information from the form I submit and makes a page.

Gaz.

[deziner]

Originally posted by Dave Clark
This could be as simple as creating a folder for each site that is being hosted within the main site and cloning certain template pages into the new folder. I created something like this for one of my clients.

Then, you'd have a structure like GEOCITES, etc:

http://www.yourdomain.com/firstsite/
http://www.yourdomain.com/secondsite/
http://www.yourdomain.com/thirdsite/
etc.

Dave

Yeah, I can see that structure as probably the best way to handle it, BUT my dilemna is HOW do I tell it to immediately assign a new site to the customer who just signed up, and paid for the new site? What will generate the new site link automatically for the new user?

Thanks for your help! You guys are great!

Sherry