Making a "members/member profile" feature?

[MarkN26]

How would you go about creating a feature for your site in which visitors can "register" as a member, and have their own "member profile" page where they can upload a small picture and list some personal information?

If you have time, please quickly visit the site

http://www.yesterdayland.com

and look at their member feature...it's so, SO well done. Developers, please let me know how they did that!

Thanks in advance!

 

[grega]

The quick answer is there are (in theory) 2 ways to do it. First and best would be to use Active Server Pages (ASP) and a database (e.g. MySQL). That's the way most sites would do it.

There is a quicker and dirtier way to do it using Javascript, which basically involves manually maintaining an array with one element for each member. As I say it's quick but manual work! Member's can't maintain their own profiles, you could end up with a very large Javascript include file which maintains the array, and most importantly, ANYONE can get access to all member's information.

If you're serious about this, I suggest option 1 is the way to go. There must be examples of this available for download at the various ASP sites.

HTH

Greg.