<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 5, 2006, at 3:48 PM, The Editor wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">How can I have people register (through a form) themselves and not go</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">through me or someone else sp then they can edit.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">If you do want to allow users to create accounts, and perhaps collect</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">information about each one in order to customize your site based on</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">them, and their preferences, you could look at ZAP forms.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For info go</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">to <A href="http://www.zapsite.org">www.zapsite.org</A>.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">It's one thing to make a form, another to make it do something.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>ZAP</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">has dozens of snippets you can simply cut and paste which allow to use</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">forms to do all kinds of useful things.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Let me know if you need help,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">I'll do my best to provide some support for you.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>XesAuthUserDBase has the ability to have users register themselves, sends them a validation email, and lets the users change their passwords, or request a new password if they lost theirs. Right now it requires MySQL but by tomorrow, the stand-alone user database version should merge back into AuthUserDBase, and you'll be able to use it with other databases too (PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc.).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So there are many options. If you look at the <A href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/XesAuthUserDbase">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/XesAuthUserDbase</A> page, you'll get an idea of how this recipe works, but I suggest waiting a day or two to install, and it will be on the <A href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AuthUserDbase">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AuthUserDbase</A> page as version 2.0.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It depends on what your goals are. If you want to steer clear of databases, this is NOT the right option.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>