So my experience with web technologies has been mainly limited to apache and flat html files with some DOM manipulation with javascript. I have a hobby I'm working on right now (online D&D game) that I think could benefit from having a webpage as an information repository.
I'm looking to learn how to set up user accounts so that my players have to sign in to the website, and limiting the content displayed based on user account. So for instance if someone's character came from the kingdom of whatever and there was background information about that place that only a native would know, then when that player logged in they would have a link pop up to that content, but if a player didn't have permissions to see that link, then they wouldn't get the link when they logged in and even if they guessed the url they would be disallowed to see that content based on the username they've authenticated with. I'm guessing the way to go about this would be to set up authentication so that they enter a username/password, if the password matches they get a cookie, then as they click around apache queries that cookie to determine what content to display. Am I on the right track here? This seems like it should be pretty basic, but my googling is giving me a variety of responses, from using ASP to using a CMS. I currently have a LAMP environment, but would be willing to run other programs to do this. I'm just looking for some pointers on where to learn the basics to do this sort of thing. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 7 - Glade - Linux GUIs made easy Nov 4 - Google Wave Dec 2 - MythTV Jan 6 - Git
