web form login help

Hi

i was just hoping someone could help me with a little problem.

I am trying to make it so that on my website members can login to their profile from the main page without having to go to the client login page.

for example say my domain is www.123.com and to login to the members area you have to go to www.123.com/members - i want to make it so that there is a form on the main page which asks for the login details and when these are entered it automatically transfers them to the members page and logs them in.

Hope this makes sense

Thanks
Andy

Is there a link to your website?

Hi

No, sorry it is not up and running at the moment as i want to get this working first

Andy

I duno then. lol

lol i know its hard to explain.

basically i want to enter a username and password into a form and then when this is submitted it transfers the same details to a form on another page and submits it.

PHP is a good language to do this in. Have a looksie at http://hotscripts.com/ to see if there's anything to suit your needs there.

It would probably be best to use PHP and a MySQL database. Normally that is the way to do such things. As Ryan said, Hot scripts is a great place to start!

Personally, I use PHP. Set the action of your form to your PHP script. After your script does it's magic, set the location to whereever you choose.
(Assuming you're capable of writing PHP)

Scott