Hello,

As for web development, I am a beginner.

Having delved into some books, I set up to design my very first web application with EasyPHP and MySQL.

In a nutshell, the users of the application would create "manifolds" in which they would put "documents". Those are records in the corresponding MySQL tables.

It occured to me that — without a proper user management system — every user would see the whole list of manifolds and documents. I would like them to see their own data : just the records they authored.

The solution would be to add a table to store the users. But the database still wouldn't be protected. So Web Access Manager (WAM) seems to be a tool of choice to take care of the users accounts.

I understand WAM can prevent users to see pages they're not allowed to see, but this is not the same as linking their details to the contents they created.

Do you have any suggestion ? I guess WAM creates a table of its own to store the users data. So it could be readable by another application... or could it ?

Thanks in advance for your time.

P.S.: I also wonder if S-Drive would be a proper solution to host the website.

Your going to need a php login system. Google it as there's plenty out there that are pretty painless to setup.

Thanks ! Those are the keywords I needed. I will give it a try.

As it happens, I found a useful tutorial http://www.webgeekly.com/tutorials/php/how-to-make-a-login-system-with-php/ explaining how to set up a simple login system with nothing more than PHP instructions. It will be more than enough for a first, non commercial, application.

It is still not clear to me whether S-Drive could host a PHP & MySQL application. I guess it would have been clearly stated if this had been the case — so the answer is probably no.

Thanks again for your quick answers.

P.S. : There is no S-Drive forum.

No php or mysql on S-drive.

Free simple to integrate user log in system... http://poppydog.com