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Hi

I am currently trying to learn more about PHP, and I recently discovered CMSMS.

I have succesfully installed CMSMS and understand most of the basics.

I have a specific project that I am hoping to accomplish with CMSMS, but don't really know where to begin with it.

1) The website requires a 'Members Area'
2) When Members login I need to display the members 'Account Balance'

For the 'Members area' I believe I could use a 'Front End Users Module', Is this correct?

To display the members account balance, I am not sure whether there is somekind of 'accounting module' I could use or whether it would be just PHP Code.

Anybody who can assist or just point me in the right direction, your help would be greatly appreciated.

FrontendUser module is for login, with CustomContent module you can control who has access to which content.

Thank you Cyberman,

I will go ahead and install the modules.

OK, I have installed frontend user module and custom content module.

I now require some further guidance to help me to achieve my goal.

1) How do I store unique information for each user? eg 'Account Balance'

2) How do I display this unique information when the user logs in?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Which unique informations do you wanna show?

The easiest way is to define groups like members, clients and so other. With that you can define which content will be shown. CustomContents module help contains some useful informations how you can do it.

First of all I need to store each users unique 'Account Balance' somewhere.

I am not sure where I would store this information, I presume I would need to add it to a MYSQL Database, but I am not sure how to go about this.

Secondly, when a user logs in I need to call this 'Account Balance' and display it to the user.

I am not familiar with working with MYSQL so any guidance on where to start and how to store this information would be appreciated.