user registration advice

[gagz]

Hi

Having never done any kind of serious user registration (except some intranet stuff), I figured I'd see what you guys typically do. I'm working on a site that will allow users to register, so that certain preferences, favorites, etc are saved. I'm assuming I'll just do something like save the users username and password as a cookie, and set everything in the session? or do people typically pull everything from a db each time?

I guess i'm just looking for general practices that most people use.

Thanks.

 

[Alcar]

under .NET you would might want to go for Forms Authentication against a DB. I would use cookies only to remember the user if he comes back to visit the website.

hth Daren J. Lahey
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[gagz]

ok i'll look into that... As long as Forms authentication doesn't *require* that a user be logged in to use the features of the site... It is a completely optional step...

 

[Alcar]

you can set up your own rules through the form authentication. Daren J. Lahey
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