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In this first part of the tutorial you will build the basic functionality of the Classified Ads site. The pages you will create will perform the following actions:
Display a tree menu of categories for visitors to choose.
Display the ads in the selected category.
Allow visitors to register to the site.
Allow registered users to log in.
Logged in users will be able to post new ads.
The first thing to build is the user registration and authentication system. To do so, follow the steps in the User Authentication tutorial. The main steps of building the user authentication system are:
Configure the Login Settings in the InterAKT Control Panel > Login Settings, as shown here.
Build the user registration to let users create an account.
Restrict access to the pages
post_ad and subscribtion, so that unauthenticated
users will not be able to post classified ads, or register to receive
them on e-mail:
Note: Keep in mind that you will have to modify some of the interface fields to reflect your current database settings. Also, user levels are not absolutely necessary for the Classified Ads Site. Unless you intent to extend this application by building an administration area, where an administrator can manage categories, locations, ads and so on, you can safely ignore them in the User Authentication tutorial.
If you have the MX Kollection 3 bundle installed, then you have all the needed tools. Otherwise, the following separate products should be installed on your computer in order to complete this section of the tutorial:
MX User Login
MX Includes
MX Query Builder
MX Tree Menu - It's a free extension that has to be installed separately from MX Kollection 3. Download it from the InterAKT web site.
The estimated completion time for this section is about 30 minutes. It depends on your authoring knowledge with Macromedia Dreamweaver (MX or MX 2004) and MX Kollection 3.
This section contains the following topics: