Question

how is it possible to make something like this:

Admin Creates accounts with specific username and password
then from the website the user logs in to his account and views personal account data the admin uploaded to his account.

For instance there is a client who has bought something.Then he logs in to his site account and views what he bought last week (in fact browsing specific server data)

How can that be done?With a simple script?A cms or what?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

The best answer is in google 🙂
Really try to search a little in google something like “user management with php” and probably you can find a huge quantity of answer.

Btw i think that to do a basic user management with php you need:

1. Design a database that handle user and if needed basket, and whatever you want (news, etc.).
2. Then the basic information you need in your database for usera management are:
   Username, email, password (be sure that the password is crypted for example with md5) and the user role (admin, editor, etc).
3. You need to specify the user roles (i think you can use a table for it, or a file, it is only up to you to decide how roles are handled).
4. For track purchase of the user you must create a relation between purchases and user_id So for example you can have a table called orders where you have minimum these files item_id order_id user_id so the user can have in its dashboard a complete tracking of its history.
5. Then how to manage user sessions? You can use COOKIEs so if the user login succesfully you set a cookie into user browser, and then check if the cookie exist you show for example some information, if the cookie doesn’t exist you show other informations.

These are the basic steps to manage users (probably many information are missing). But this is good if you want to learn something, but if you want something strong and probably more secure you can think to use a CMS and maybe only create some customization of it if needed.