[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Create Members-Only web pages

[Todd Robinson]

I recently became the webmaster for our Boy Scout troop. The site isn't 
very useful right now. One of the items I wish to add is contact info 
(name, email, phone nbr) of all the adult leaders. However, I'm not 
comfortable with doing that unless there is reasonable preventive 
measures from bad guys scraping the site and sending junk emails or 
such. I'm looking for ideas on how to setup a Members Only capability 
for some areas of the site such as this.

The previous webmaster is no longer with the troop (son made it to 
Eagle) and nearly impossible to get any response from (way too busy). 
So, all my admin info for the site is purely from exploration of it. My 
findings are that the host provides 5 MySQL DBs, 5 M$ SQL DBs, and 
appears to support PHP, Perl, and JavaScript. The site currently uses 
PHP, JavaScript (just simple menus), and of course HTML. I don't see any 
Perl files but Perl is listed in the host admin stats page. This is OT 
because the host identifies as a Windows OS. I can create/admin DBs and 
FTP files. I sincerely doubt I have privs to install any kind of 
software. Just source (PHP, HTML, ...).

Unless others are interested, I think this topic should be discussed 
off-list.
=TR=