How to set up a customer login in part of site?

[sandythealc]

I'm setting up a website and was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction as to what options are available to me.I want to have it possible to have a customer apply for an account with us and then be able to log in and make orders or re-orders of stock. I don't need a payment system just an ordering system which would only be available to customers with an account. This would be for trade business not general public.I've a basic server and domain but not anything like MySQL or the like.an example of what I'm after can be found herehttp://www.selectcardsuk.com/see bottom left cornerany help on what is need to set this up would be great.I have a pretty good knowledge of xhtml html and css and have also done alittle pascal, javascript and have a medium ability on flash.Thanks in advance.I;ve a limited budget and just noticed that MySQL is quite expensive. My server comes with asp and asp.net for extra cash whats the difference.

[PeterK2209]

The only way that you can do this is to run server side scripts. The website that you liked uses ASP which is a Microsoft specific language. Another popular way to do this would be with PHP and this fits nicely with MySQL which would be very useful to store client data with.But any server side language like Perl, Java servlets or even Bash script is what you need. In theory you can even do server scripts in Pascal but I have never seen it done in practise.

[JenniferL5886]

Mysql comes with your web hosting package, you can probably buy web hosting from website like http://aplis.net/ .You can also contact a web designer at website like http://oktutorial.com/ to setup customer login part of your site.