Help With New Project

[mtorbin]

Hey all,

OK, quick question for you. I have a new project that I'm working on and I'm curious what the best way to go about building this is (or if you know of a pre-built package):

1) Users must log in using email address and password (could use Javascript/Perl/ASP)
2) A file keeps track of who downloads what file
3) The file is witten out as an HTML file

Files are currently located on an FTP site on a UNIX box.

OK folks, ideas?

- MT

 

[Dweezel]

If I were doing the project I'd use php with mysql databases.

User Database for the logins with fields:

user_id (auto_increment)
email
password


Files Database:
file_id (auto_increment)
filename



Downloads Database:
user_id (from user database)
file_id (from files database)
(and if you wanted to keep track of when they downloaded the files, add a date field in here).

 

[mtorbin]

Dweezel,

I'm not yet up on PHP. Is there any way to do this with Perl? Is there a pre-packaged script out there that can guide me?

This is one of the bigger projects I've worked on.

- MT

 

[Xaqte]

This is can be done in Perl. However, I couldn't find a "pre-packaged" script.

If you want to go this route, I suggest poking around in:
forum452

Also, take a look at CGI.pm (if you are not already familiar with it):

http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.11/CGI.pm

Let us know your results!

X

 

[mtorbin]

So... IF I go to the bookstore tonight, how is my money better spent? On a decent PHP guide or on a decent PERL guide?

- MT

 

[Xaqte]

So... IF I go to the bookstore tonight, how is my money better spent? On a decent PHP guide or on a decent PERL guide?

That depends...
Please answer these questions so we can provide an accurate answer:
How is your experience in:
1. Perl
2. PHP
3. MySQL
4. HTML

How many people do you expect to be using your project?