user login and password confirmation

how to confirm a user login and password, and then lead the user to his profile page? is it related to database retrival?

Oh Man, there so many ways to do this, depending on what programming language your using, ie. PHP, Perl..etc.

Can you be a bit more specific

Mickalo

ok. I make it more detail of my question.

For example, I got an user ID and password. Then, I key in the login ID and password on a web site, then I click login.

What is the technology involve behind the above scene?

Well, the simplest method will be using directory protection with .htaccess. You can use one username and password for all users.

You can check out how this works by typing .htaccess or password protected directory in Google.

More complicated ways of doing this will be using programming languages such as Perl, PHP etc. Of course, this way is more sophisticated since you can generate usernames and passwords, give different people certain level and access etc.

There are lots of scripts that you can use for this. You can check out http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scri...ord_Protection/ and http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scrip...Authentication/

Hope this helps.

Laura Brandt

Hello,

As Laura suggested using .htaccess is the best way to protect
a directory on your site or html pages.

First thing you need to figure out is how you are going to manage
the profiles in the first place. Whether they are each going to get
their own HTML page or you are going to add each to a database
eg, mySQL, Flatefile and so on. Each could then be unique to their
username and password, which can be stored in the database as
well.

If using mySQL you can encrypt each users passwords in the table
and test against that.

From there you could extract the proper users information and do
with it whatever you or they want to.

Create profiles dynamically and update records according to the users
input.

I am sure you could get help if you would descibe exactly how you
want to store the information.

Regards,
Ray