Hi All,

I'm just starting out the in exciting world of dynamic web applications - or
so it says in the book infont of me. I'm creating a website where I need to
have a form where users can register and enter their details (email address,
password, age, ..etc...) which then get added to a new row of my "members"
table in my database. So far I can get data in and out using SQL functions,
but to do this you firstly need to connect to the database providing the
location, username and password.

The "thing" I don't understand at the moment is how can I let users create
their own membership details / line in the table, without having the
database log in details publicly viewable? I don't really want it all there
for everyone to see when they go to view the source of the website!

If anyone can provide a really simple explanation of how to do this then it
would be greatly appreciated, ...as I said, I'm really new to all
this......didn't even know what HTML was a few months ago,lol.

Thanks in advance,
Dan
P.s Being a pretty security conscious guy I know I'll have to do something
about storing their personal details, ...but that's a hurdle I'll worry
about another time.

I think you missed some info. A database can & does contain anything,
passwords, account numbers...
It what you let all users 'SEE' that counts.
Only the user(ID) should be able to view their info.
kahn
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Dan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm just starting out the in exciting world of dynamic web applications - or
> so it says in the book infont of me. I'm creating a website where I need to
> have a form where users can register and enter their details (email address,
> password, age, ..etc...) which then get added to a new row of my "members"
> table in my database. So far I can get data in and out using SQL functions,
> but to do this you firstly need to connect to the database providing the
> location, username and password.
>
> The "thing" I don't understand at the moment is how can I let users create
> their own membership details / line in the table, without having the
> database log in details publicly viewable? I don't really want it all there
> for everyone to see when they go to view the source of the website!
>
> If anyone can provide a really simple explanation of how to do this then it
> would be greatly appreciated, ...as I said, I'm really new to all
> this......didn't even know what HTML was a few months ago,lol.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dan
> P.s Being a pretty security conscious guy I know I'll have to do something
> about storing their personal details, ...but that's a hurdle I'll worry
> about another time.
>
>
>