I am in need of guidance due to my lack of experience in PHP scripting. I
have the following problem for which I need a solution.

I would like to display information from a business directory on the web.
This directory will be made publicly available on the net , to the
country's inhabitants. There is no charge or membership required to access
the data. I will need to count the database access and on what data is
access most frequently. Also the data on a query can be used as input for a
further query. The data from the directory is only read from but never
written too.

I therefore have concluded that I need the following :
I would like to create SSL connection to transmit the data securely to the
person and back.
I need to create sessions so that I can determine which data the user
should be able to access next depending on where he was beforehand.
I need an authentication or log in screen , to set up the session.
So I though of the following .
A User comes to the MainPage. A link , which starts a secure connection ,
takes him to the Log_InPage. He uses a random log in generated for him.
This log in procedure establishes a session. He is now connected to the
DatabaseAccessPage from here he can start query's on the database which
will take him to various result pages depending on the query. Which in turn
can take him to various other pages with database related data depending
where he was beforehand.
The last part of accessing the database becomes a bit of an problem. Must I
access my database with one or with more connections ? Because how can many
users access the database at the same time. As I can probably only log into
one account at a time ?

Any comments , criticism and advice is welcome ?










Mr. U. Oeder
Head of IT Departement

Creative-Logic
1 Dr Michael de Kock St.
Northern Industrial Area
Windhoek
Namibia

P.O. Box 9274
Phone : 061-262 941
Fax : 061-262 130
Email : uweo@...


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