Okay after browsing for about 5 hrs I've come to the conclusion that I'm even more confused then I was when I started. I've pretty much figured out I need to learn PHP or ASP and the majority of the sites that do what I want use PHP. On that note what I want to do:
I currently run a fanfic site which with a rerelease of the show has boomed to a volume where manually converting and posting the stories has outgrown the time I have available. I want to make it so the only thing I have to do is fix bugs in my programming and maintain my webserver. I've written down how I want the site to act and look and my first priority is creating two things a user authentification system so that only those who have registered as authors can post their work.. I would like this to be fairly secure.. while there really won't be that much personaly information on the server I would like to learn to protect the data they submit i.e. username, pass, email address ect.. I know I have to somehow use sessions and cookies to make sure they have logged in before accessing a page in my restricted area.
The second thing that I need to create and this is the one I'm really having trouble finding material on yet I know some sites have managed it ie fanfiction.net is I need the user to be able to upload their story in either a word doc, txt file or html only those types and the server show the formatting the document was uploaded with but disable all html tags I don't want allowed...
I know this is jumping way over my head considering I know next to nothing about PHP or ASP .. I do however have a very firm grasp of html and some expierence in Java and C++ and SQL so I can usually figure things out based on code snippets and articles.
Unfortunatly I can't seem to find any info aimed toward IIS and SQL servers on the password authentification and abosolutley no clue on where to find info on the second part of what I need to do. Any references would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the lenghty post.
Khaje
I currently run a fanfic site which with a rerelease of the show has boomed to a volume where manually converting and posting the stories has outgrown the time I have available. I want to make it so the only thing I have to do is fix bugs in my programming and maintain my webserver. I've written down how I want the site to act and look and my first priority is creating two things a user authentification system so that only those who have registered as authors can post their work.. I would like this to be fairly secure.. while there really won't be that much personaly information on the server I would like to learn to protect the data they submit i.e. username, pass, email address ect.. I know I have to somehow use sessions and cookies to make sure they have logged in before accessing a page in my restricted area.
The second thing that I need to create and this is the one I'm really having trouble finding material on yet I know some sites have managed it ie fanfiction.net is I need the user to be able to upload their story in either a word doc, txt file or html only those types and the server show the formatting the document was uploaded with but disable all html tags I don't want allowed...
I know this is jumping way over my head considering I know next to nothing about PHP or ASP .. I do however have a very firm grasp of html and some expierence in Java and C++ and SQL so I can usually figure things out based on code snippets and articles.
Unfortunatly I can't seem to find any info aimed toward IIS and SQL servers on the password authentification and abosolutley no clue on where to find info on the second part of what I need to do. Any references would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the lenghty post.
Khaje