Is it possible to create a Sign Up sheet with freeway pro 6? I would like to make a simple login page for customers. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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What will this do in the way of “logging in”? Will it prevent unauthorized persons from seeing private content? This is a really deep pond, not necessarily as simple as it may appear.
At the most basic level, you can usually use your hosting provider’s control panel to password-protect a directory on the server. Anyone who tries to access the contents of that folder will be challenged for a username and password, and once they provide it, they will be able to see them. This login will be provided by the browser, and can be quite ugly on certain browser/versions. You do not get to design it at all.
But it’s not strictly the same as a login system that you may have seen elsewhere. For one thing, you cannot have a single folder (/client_area) that multiple users can log into, but always only see “their” content. The best you can do is to have a folder per login (/client1, /client2, …) and one or more username/password pairs associated with each folder. The client still has to know the actual URL of their folder. There’s also no logging per se to tell you that someone in particular authenticated into that folder.
Still, you may want to go with this approach, since it does not involve programming, or programmers, or dodgy scripts you download (or buy – shudder) from HotScripts or another source. Authorization and authentication are a big scary deal in the Web programming world, and there are a thousand ways to do it wrong, and comparatively few ways to really do it right.
Walter
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