Re: Newbie question about web users

2004-11-04 Thread SGreen
It's not a simple question at all. Your users actually DON'T talk to the database, your PHP application does. Your users converse with your PHP code. Your web server will have one layer of authentication just to allow the user to view the pages your site is composed of. Assume for a second th

Re: Newbie question about web users

2004-11-04 Thread John McCaskey
The answer is you create one user for the PHP (webserver) process to use. Then you keep track of user permissions in your application code. This probably involves creating your own user table within your own database and storing users of your site there. Then in the other tables you associate it

Newbie question about web users

2004-11-04 Thread Matthew Benton
Hello all, Basic question about creating a database that will be accessed by many users. Do I create one web user account with no password in the mysql.user table or add each user to the mysql.user table as they join up to my site? (Lots of books and documentation says how to create users, the