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Login authorization and authentication - ASP.net or PHP?

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2006-07-30 15:49:49, Category: Programming & Design
I need a good free package that can allow me to set up users, let them log in, log out, on setup they have to confirm via an e-mail confirmation, and store their login status in secure cookies. Does anyone know of something I can download?

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  1. Newsmaster

    On 2006-07-30 16:20:22


    I'd use PHP. I prefer it over .net just because it's more readily available from hosting services and you can get a lot more help out there from fellow PHP coders. Also, there's a lot of free source code out there for PHP. As far as doing a membership site where users have to authenticate email, it's pretty simple to do in PHP using mail() and MySQL. Lots of info online on how to get started: http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=php+tutorial+login+email+authenticate&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&search_type=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DArRdWASsqw7SR5g6f8r3wj4azKIX%2FSIG%3D111gjvvgj%2F*-http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&p=php+tutorial+login+email+authenticate

  2. Railgun

    On 2006-07-30 16:26:17


    Actually, doing logins in ASP.NET (especially version 2) is easier than PHP out of the box since you can define all the accounts and security down to the page level in the web.config file at the root level of the site. A login control box is included as a Web Server control, and you can check for a logged in user in the global.asax (one location) file instead of at the top of every PHP page. There are tons of ASP.NET web host. www.webhost4life.com is a good one.