
Using PHP to create a membership Web site?I would like your recommendation on integrating php scripts on the website to create free membership or paid membership access only web pages. Are there any books that teach you how to do that in the most simplest way? I'm quite new to website building and still in the process of learning html. I would appreciate your advice. Thank you. Alas, PHP is still on my ever-growing action list (I do occassionaly lop something off the top of the list, to be fair, but there's so much to learn! And so much new technology coming out every week! But, hey, that's my problem, right? ;-) so to get a good answer I asked my friend and colleague Derek Scruggs, head of Escalan Integrated Direct Marketing and a darn good PHP programmer. Here's his answer: Ugh. If you're not even conversant in HTML, I recommend you get a grip on that first (insert promo for Dave's Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS book here) because PHP's roots are in web page templating. If you're looking to get something up quickly, you're better off getting one of the jillions of PHP/MySQL CMS systems out there. You can compare and contrast some of them at CMS Matrix.org. If/when you decide to roll your own solution, I recommend the book PHP and MySQL Web Development from SAMS and, once you're comfortable with PHP, PHP Developer's Cookbook also from Sams. It's relatively easy to build a pw-protected site. The hard part is tying userIDs to subscriptions and processing credit card (and especially) PayPal transactions. You can do some of this manually, but it becomes a big PITA once you hit a certain number of users. I hope that helps you out!
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. Yes, if there are not HTML roots, there won't be much PHP. I'm still a bit new to PHP myself, but the stuff is fun as all. So I've been looking for a good book, and I think that PHP Developer's Cookbook sounds good with my birthday coming up. Hi, I have tried a few CMS but because I don't know PHP I have never been able to change any of them to work for me as I want it, layout mainly. Any advice? Also do you have paid links (free would be great, but alas not these days it seems), I am buildinga new web site here in Ireland for the Irish market on web hosting, broadband, blogging etc, and need to get seen. Thanks I want to build a simple membership website, with free members and paid members. Where can I find the script and installation manual. Thanks for the help I recomend using phpdirect hi, i downloaded a php script of a ptc site. Hi,am from a remote country but I've always wondered how stuff is done-I have met most of the sites in my country that allow people to send sms messages directly from the computer and it's delivered to the respective mobile phone numbers,I e-mailed one of the web developers and he said there are two options, Easiest route to follow would probably be starting with self hosted wordpress (wordpress.org). Gleb Posted by: Gleb Esman at December 25, 2008 6:17 PMWell, I heard a lot about aMember.com. You can use it to integrate with a number of CMSes like WordPress, Drupal, etc. And I also found wp-member.com -- another plugin you can check out. Posted by: Kidino at January 5, 2009 7:57 AMSend me any information that you think would help me get started. Thanx! Posted by: Jennifer Trautt at March 4, 2009 7:54 AMhi Hmm.. good start for a newbie. Posted by: Rajeev at April 20, 2009 1:52 AMI have a lot to say, but ...
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