How do I set up a visitor password account in FrontPage

[Richard]

My website needs to have the ability to allow visitors to set up their own
user name and password accounts, and allow them to post information and
photos in their account site page for other visitors to view. I've been
reading through "Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003" by Paul Colligan and
Jim Cheshire and can find no reference to how this is done, or if it even can
be done with this program. Being brand new to web design, it may be that I'm
just not understanding the terminology or that this needs to be accomplished
by a third party program attachment. Anyone?

 

[Andrew Murray]

http://www.murraywebs.com/faq.asp?id=13 (go to related links)
This gives the procedure of how to password protect a folder(s) or file(s).

The "sign up" process would be a simple matter of creating a form, and
having Frontpage write the data to an Access database with the same fields
as the database you're retrieving the logon information from when a person
logs on.

It really depends on your hosting platform (unix or windows) - you could ask
your host if they have any such script or features that allows you to
password protect.

My host uses HELM for Windows hosting and Cpanel for Linux. Both feature
the "protected folders" features. I have hosting accounts on both Linux and
Windows.

Visual Studio Web Developer 2005 Express (the download is available from
Microsoft for this product) has some routines built in for "signup", "logon"
"forgot password", "change details" but I don't know how to implement them -
they use .NET and I've hardly touched the surface of ASP yet.

I'm suprised the book you're using doesn't go through the database features
in Frontpage.

Another book "Frontpage Inside Out" might be of help - the author is an MVP
on this group.

 

[Richard]

Thanks Andrew - sounds like you answered everything I had a question about.
Much appreciated!!
Richard

 

[askimo]

But it doesnt say how to do it or find out the answer

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Requires use of a database and server side scripting
- and depends on what your host supports for both

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| But it doesnt say how to do it or find out the answer
|
|
| "Richard" wrote:
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| > My website needs to have the ability to allow visitors to set up their own
| > user name and password accounts, and allow them to post information and
| > photos in their account site page for other visitors to view. I've been
| > reading through "Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003" by Paul Colligan and
| > Jim Cheshire and can find no reference to how this is done, or if it even can
| > be done with this program. Being brand new to web design, it may be that I'm
| > just not understanding the terminology or that this needs to be accomplished
| > by a third party program attachment. Anyone?