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Post by g3ckO »

Actually I think my login page have run quite good.

And now I need help to start develop the admin tools according to the view page I show above.
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do you have any SQL experience??? Just make some DB and make a table with some fields and take a easy reg script and login script and test it until you undertsand how it works...

basically, PHP is a behind the scenes language, that is best used for passing variables to a DB or HTML page, etc... Learn the basics of variables, and how to use them, then go from there... how are you at webdevelopment, what languages do you know well???

Man, I coded up a community with absolutly no PHP and SQL experience, only because of the tremendous help given to me here, and my past programming experience... purhaps that was my advantage, and purhaps that may be yours, I have no idea what you know...

One things for sure, giving up, is not the best route to take, keep trying and trying, until you get it right... trail and error is the best teacher, only when you realise what you learnt, so get the basics, mess with them, innovate them, and master them, then move up to something difficult like login pages, and what not... just don't give up ;)
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I never done web programming before.

But I have basic knowledge in using C++ and java.
I think in php the logic is just the same.

So, to make it simple for now, anyone can give me any code for admin tool that simple enough for me to understand that i will use as a base to develop it on my own.

Just how to edit/delete and update user data.
thats all.
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Have you look at CMS-Solutions like Mambo? Quite powerful, extremely simple to set up and very scalable and templating is flexible.

Would save you many future grey hairs, I would think.
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Thanks patrickG

I have dowloaded it.

Now try to explore about what can I do with it.
Any suggestion from you as an experienced user :)
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Post by g3ckO »

There is any other free script for reference just for admin tools.
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It depends very much how and what you want. Mambo's architecture is set up very cleanly, so you can easily install and uninstall components and modules - and there's a plethora out there to help either integrate existing solutions (e.g. discussion forums, online-shops etc.) or create genuinely new one like akoGallery, akoBook etc.
You can run a portal without extending Mambo so the choice is very much yours.
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