PHP registration page help!!

Question

Hi, I am in the process of redesigning my union's website to
include a member area. Here's my problem...
I already have a database for our union members. What I want
to do is to be able to have register using data that I already have
for them in a table: Last Name, First Name, Date of Birth, Last 4
digits of SSN. There will also be fields for user name and password
(which will originally be blank in the table). When the user hits
the submit button, the form data needs to compare those first 4
submitted fields to the corresponding ones in the existing table
(much the same way a credit card company might do with an existing
account). If the data submitted matches what's in the table, the
user name and password submitted in the form are written to the
table and the user should be redirected to a login page.
How should i go about building such a registration page??
Help!!! ???
Thanks,
rborc415

Answer 1

rborc415 wrote:
> I've been knocking around with what you suggested and
I'm kind of flying blind
> at this point... could I ask you to be a little more
specific?
Basically, what you are doing is creating a search page. If
the search
produces a result, you want to display an update form. You
can either do
it all in one page, and control what it displayed with
conditional
logic, or you can use session variables pass the information
from one
page to the next.
The basic way to do it with separate pages is to create a
search form in
page 1. Get the user to enter the four items. Send the form
using the
GET method to page 2.
In page 2, create a recordset to search for the record, using
the $_GET
variables. If the recordset is empty, display a message
saying "record
not found". If the recordset is not empty, display the
results in an
update form, using readonly fields for the already-registered
values.
Use ordinary text fields for the items you want the user to
fill in.
Apply an Update Record server behavior.
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