Mac alternative for Coffeecup's Password Wizard
Hi
We have an organisation for history teachers, and we also publish a magazine.
We would like to post past & new issues off the magazine on our website, but only for those who are subscribed to the magazine. iWeb only has one login & password.
Does anyone know off a simple app that can manage this?
I've been looking everywhere for something like this to run on a Mac, for someone who doesn't know anything about php or MySQL.
What we also would like to do is that people could upload stuff to the site (interactivity), f.i. they have a good lesson prepaired off the French Revolution, can they then upload it? Is that possible?
A bit like adding pics to a web-gallery?
Already thanks from all Flemish history teachers…
JVK
That is why I'm looking for something else, so that not everyone has the same login and pass.
Does that change with a php-database?
Why is this so difficult to do?
Thanks already!
JVK
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