Simplest Language/Program for user log in.

[nerv_0034]

Hello.

I am making a simple html-based game for a school project. Mostly consists of just Images and Texts, what some people may call a 'Visual Novel' but very simple, no game engine whatsoever. I don't think I would present it as an online game, as it may complicate things further.

I would like to know what type of language/method/program is the simplest way to Log-in a User. I'm still looking at Java Tutorials for the Open(Load) /Save dialog box - I'm not sure if this will also help me with User Log In/Managing Accounts, as I've not gone that much far either.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[PeOfEo]

Is security critical? How many users are you estimating you will have? If the number of users is small or fixed and security is not an issue you could do it client side. If you have a small number of users but security might be an issue you could go with htaccess if you are on an apache webserver, or you could go with forms auth / windows auth through web.config on a windows based webserver. Otherwise you will need a server side language (Asp, Asp.net, Php, Jsp, Cgi, Cfm) and a database. If you are on a windows base server that runs asp.net you can use the code from an article I wrote on simple db based logins with asp.net http://www.webreference.com/programming/asp/quasi/