Re: Php login/registration page

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From	Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com>
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Subject	Re: Php login/registration page
Date	Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:16:18 -0400
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Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:24:01 -0400, Matthew Carter wrote:
>
>> I'd think the intention of a non-database registration page would be a
>> page where the user fills out a form and the data posted writes to a
>> flat file (which is then subsequently read from for confirming a user is
>> registered, to access a single member only page).
>
> But that flat file is a database.
>
> This is one of the issues. You can't store registration information to 
> use at a future login time without holding somewhere, on the server, a 
> list of users. Regardless of how and where you store it on the server, 
> it's a database.

"A database is an organized collection of data." - Wikipedia.

How literal do you take it/where do you draw the line though?  Written
to disk = database?  Stored in RAM = database?  A collection of Pokemon
cards = a database?

In the context of software, I think 99% of the time a reference to a
"database" is a reference to a DBMS, not the literal meaning.

-- 
Matthew Carter (m@ahungry.com)
http://ahungry.com

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Php login/registration page Apple Sizat <afor6993@gmail.com> - 2014-09-30 16:04 -0700
  Re: Php login/registration page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-09-30 20:55 -0400
    Re: Php login/registration page Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-09-30 23:33 -0400
      Re: Php login/registration page "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-10-01 06:51 +0200
      Re: Php login/registration page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-01 08:13 -0400
        Re: Php login/registration page Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-10-01 22:37 -0400
        Re: Php login/registration page GS <nomail@nospam.org.invalid> - 2014-10-03 01:38 +0000
          Re: Php login/registration page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-02 21:43 -0400
          Re: Php login/registration page Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-03 03:29 +0000
            Re: Php login/registration page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-10-03 00:24 -0400
              Re: Php login/registration page Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-03 18:33 +0000
                Re: Php login/registration page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-10-03 16:16 -0400
                Re: Php login/registration page Ed Mullen <ejEVOMER@edmullen.net> - 2014-10-03 18:24 -0500
                Re: Php login/registration page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-03 20:37 -0400
  Re: Php login/registration page Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-09-30 18:38 -0700
  Re: Php login/registration page gordonb.opkrz@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2014-09-30 21:08 -0500

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