PHP? ASP? CGI? Java? Perl?

[ErikL]

I have been asked to research the possibility of creating an internet-based subscription service for the manuals my company produces.

I would like some idea as to what would need to happen. Hopefully people have done this before and can give me a little insight from their experiences. I dodged the Perl, CGI bullets and have avoided like the plague the ASP and PHP nightmares, but it is catching up with me.

The site would need:

A login page (Form) to allow each user to log into the book site. The site wouldn't have any content differentiation (yet) once you sign up, you have access to everything. It would need to be a secure subscription. (no copying and pasting of a login URL)

Any ideas?

- Long

[havik]

Well you'd need a server side language and personally I'd use coldfusion. But you need to check if your server will allow it.

PHP, ASP, CGI and PERL will work smoothly as well. Java I'm not too sure about but javascript is a definite no!

You might find something here to get you started:
http://www.devscripts.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/

Havik

[pyro]

Originally posted by ErikL
A login page (Form) to allow each user to log into the book site.Is that all you need? This could be simply done with .htaccess...

[ErikL]

Really? What the heck is .htaccess?

[khaki]

Hi Pyro...

what is ".htaccess"

maybe i do know what it is, and just don't know what it is called :confused:

but... i'm not sure.
can you explain what it is and what it's role is?

thanks
;) k

[pyro]

This article explains some of what you can do with .htaccess files. http://javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml Page 3 covers password protection with .htaccess and .htpasswd