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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: Active Members List II: The Return
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 02:28:38 GMT
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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:23:29 -0000, "Rikki Prince" 
wrote:
>Thinking about it again, outside access is not really a problem, as the
>input form and links would be from my Net Yaroze page anyway. The scripts on
>the other server would then just be called from the NY page. I think my main
>concern at the moment is allowing re-editing of information, but only by the
>person who entered it in the first place. Anyone got any ideas on how to do
>this? I could use a really basic password protection on the editing form,
>but that's then a pain for the person to remember their password.


Well, people will forget their password, and you'll probably get
emails now and then to tell them what theirs are (unless you can make
a tiny "I forgot my password" form, which should be cake -- just send
it to the email address they registered with).

To make it as simple as possible, do the following:

1 button, says "click to create a new record".   Another says "click
to edit this record".  If someone edits his record, (I'm assuming you
will fill out the form with everything they had put in initially),
just add a hidden variable like edit=true.

Then, your save form should do the following:

if edit="true" then
   if password_entered=password_on_file
      save_edited_record
   else
      complain "Incorrect edit password used"
   endif
else
  create_new_record (with password)
endif

Steven