Question

Am looking for help in creating an environment where the user is able to update their profile by uploading their image and add their skills. I have already set up the user sign up form where each user sees the same page after logged in. These pages appear to all users which are access controlled pages( visible only when logged in). Everything is done using PHP.

As soon as the user logs in it shows – Logged in as “User” so that the user sees that they are logged in. I have created some similar access controlled pages.

I want each user to be able to update their own profiles with a simple profile pic and their skills like html, writing, web coding, etc. How to make it happen for each registered user?

I will be adding lot of users for this site who will be able to manage their own dashboard.

The best example site would be oDesk or elance where the user is able to update their skills, and which can be viewed by the Admin.

Answer 1

Update for Comment I am successful in sorting out the prob of user recognition for the few pages that I have set up for the users once logged in.

You are definitely going to need a database to hold information for each of your users. Start looking into MySQL server and once you have one setup, follow some tutorials for php mysqli and php form. The below is extremely rough but it should give you an idea of how to attack your problem. Good Luck!

index.html

<form action="addSkills.php" method="post">
 <input type="text" name="skill"/>
 <input type="submit">
</form>

addSkills.php

$skill = $_POST['skill'];

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
$result = $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO user (skill) VALUES('$skill') WHERE userId = $_COOKIE['userId']")
$result->close();
$mysqli->close();

This is a huge undertaking, you should try separating this into tasks and try working on each task at a time. One place to start would be able to navigate from page a to page b and still being recognized as logged in, once you do that look into forms and submitting forms.