like to know how to install a member's login and search function..

[kalarok]

Hi,
I saw sth at http://mbs2.lovecareshare.com and like to know how they install the member's login (with username and password) and also a search function on the website.
Perhaps there is some simple script that I could use.

Thank you.

Bobby

[Dave]

I really like using Geeklog. You can install a copy and customize it around your interests or needs. Geeklog is only one of many free content management portals you can install and customize. Another favorite is Joomla but they all have their own unique set of features to work with. You can install any of them using your Fantastico auto installer found in your cpanel.

[rjewett]

Installing authentication code is not that difficult, but you have to know what resources you are trying to protect. The content management solution works as long as the content you are protecting can be managed in that system. There isn't really a concept of single signon in the scripting environment. And anyway this would require that all of the applications out there get their authentication information from the single signon application.

For instance, if you install Joomla, Gallery or Coppermine and phpbb2 you have three different authentication systems to deal with. If you have other parts of your website that you want to protect and you decide to reuse their authentication you have to know how to decode the information they store in their cookie.

I did this once by auto-populating the phpbb2 database with information from our user database and then setting the phpbb2 cookie when our users logged on. This allowed a single logon to our site and when they went to the bulletin board page they did not have to login again. But the amount of php code that I had to analyze and write was not worth the effort. And update to the version of phpbb2 may mean my workaround would fail.