I really need information on the following - any information would
be greatly appreciated:

I want to set up a site which has basic information
for free and more detailed information for those who
subscribe. Therefore I need information on a login
facility and a partially password protected site and how to go
about setting up a facility for allowing transactions
through the net for any subscribers. However, I want a login
facility like that of Hotmail - username and password not htaccess.


Do I have to have two sets of pages, also what happens if
someone looses there password.

Cheers,

Gubbs.

What would be the best way of securing a website ????

Thanks

Gubbs

what kind of security do you want?

do you want password protected pages?

individual user accounts?

protected source/images?

encryption when sending information from the user to the server and back?

Well people would have individual accounts and some of the site would be password protected.

How would you protect images / source anyway.

Thanks

Gubbs.

you simply can't protect source or graphics. there is no way to absolutely protect or hide it, only ways to prevent the less intelligent from getting it. you can search the forum for those methods.

for accounts, you will need a server side language such as PHP or ASP and a database system such as MySQL for storing user info. you could probably find a pre-made system if you do an Internet search for PHP scripts or the like, or you can learn the language yourself and create one on your own.

for learning PHP, I recommend the introductory tutorial then the full documentation at http://www.php.net or the tutorials at http://www.devshed.com