Members area script

Members area script serves for regulating access management and membership control on a website. This tool allows implementing restricted access to website resources, creating member groups with different privileges, integrating payment systems, organizing billing and product statistics and so on. Members area script can cover some specific site zone, for example product catalogue, access to which can receive only authorized users or members from some group. There can be several such zones, for each of them a programmer provides separate section in members area script, where all required restrictions and features are described in code interpretation. There a lot of members area scripts, each one has its own structure and content. Here you can see a basic sample of a script code:

Members area script also allows to regulate the process of new members creation through sign up form, define what information to collect from members, in what form and where it will be saved.

The main method of access restriction for members area is password protection that requires from user (member) to pass the authorization procedure. Only if it was finished successfully (i.e., login/password was found in server database), a member gets access to protected area. For this purpose members area script must include description of login procedure, mechanism of checking the authenticity of login/password information, adding mew member procedure, and so on.

Sometimes there is needed to restrict rules of resource usage for different user groups. For this purpose all website members must be classified into different groups, depending on access level. Such structure also can be realized by a script code.

Various security limitations, such as defining password/login format, CAPTCHA test implementation, banning dangerous IP addresses, limiting number of different IP addresses for one account are also provided by members area script and usually plays the core role in membership management system. Remember that all valuable information that is necessary for correct work of website management system, such as members profile, data from sign up forms, IP addresses list, etc. must be saved not in the webpage code directly, as this makes page downloading longer and represent a serious threat for website security. For such data a separate database on a web server is usually created.

Remember that full-blown membership management system is really difficult to organize by code script, and as a rule for this purpose a special software with usable interface is used.

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