[FX.php List] FM accts vs. acct & password fields?

[Bob Patin]

Joel,

You could do it with a script, but I've never done it that way. I  
suppose you could have your form input the username and password to be  
used, write it to a record in a temp table, then use those field  
values in a script that you trigger after setting the values...

I use a USERS table; in almost every web app where I've needed to add  
users, the users were set up for use with the web app, not with  
FileMaker itself, so it wasn't necessary for them to have in-depth  
abilities like script-editing, layout-editing, field definitions,  
etc.; I suppose if you need those sorts of capabilities for some or  
all of your new users, then adding users to the database's schema  
itself would be the way to go...

I'd be interested in hearing how you write it. :)

Best,

Bob Patin
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On Jun 16, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> A FileMaker colleague has asked me about a new php project of his in  
> which users will create their own accounts via the website.  He's  
> thinking that the user accounts would be actual FileMaker accounts.   
> I would think that a User table with username and password fields  
> would be the way to go, but I wanted to check if anybody here  
> creates FM accounts for website users.  Does anybody??  Or anyone  
> have any relevant comments?  (I don't know their anticipated number  
> of users.)