I want to setup a small system whereby I provide a user with a password, give them a link to a page, they use that password to gain access to a page specific to their content.

i.e.: I give someone the password "pword", they use "pword" in a form and login. But each password will show different content. So pword would display all relevant information for pword, and another password like "passw" would should information and content for "passw"

Sorry if that sounds confusing.

How would I go about this?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...by-user-level/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...level-content/

http://www.bravenewcode.com/2008/05/...ess-templates/

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla...t-joomla-users

http://docs.joomla.org/User_Group_Ac...n_simple_terms

It's nothing to do with wordpress or joomla though, bare that in mind.

"setup a small system" covers a lot of ground, from using a ready made CMS to coding your own.

Care to be more explicit on what you envisage?
All we have up to now is you want to show different content based on a logon parameter, which of course is simple to do (and fundamental) in most existing CMS systems

Originally Posted by chrishirst

"setup a small system" covers a lot of ground, from using a ready made CMS to coding your own.

Care to be more explicit on what you envisage?
All we have up to now is you want to show different content based on a logon parameter, which of course is simple to do (and fundamental) in most existing CMS systems

I would like to code it on my own, and that is pretty much all I want to do. I just can't see where to start on the PHP side of things in terms of different content.

Ok

No idea of your coding and database experience skills but in simple terms;

You give the logon an ID in the database then extract the content for that ID and display it.

The ID is stored in a cookie or session so the user does not have to supply the credentals for each page.

so do you want the Fisher-Price style "My First CMS" or the more advanced "CMS for Dummies"