Help!!! New to programming.

[Anon]

Please forgive my ignorance, but I\'m very new to programming. I was intially hired on as a Web Graphic/Designer, but have been currently assigned to create an electronic journal utilizing PHP and postgresql.

My first hurdle to overcome is how to code for the following?

1. New user fills out form. Once submitted, an autogenerated password will be sent to user via email.

2. User will access site and log in with the option of changing their password.

My question is how to code for this in PHP and store it in postgesql database.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Elizabeth

[Anon]

hi;
I have desinged an ERDiagram for library system as a self picked project;
I have normalized it, but it has to be normalized futhur more please help me out to make it in perfect normalized form so that i can start working on table creation
process:
i have 7 entities as folllows;
student
address
bookloan
finerate
hold/status
bookinfo
author
please help me out

Elizabeth wrote:

Please forgive my ignorance, but I\'m very new to programming. I was intially hired on as a Web Graphic/Designer, but have been currently assigned to create an electronic journal utilizing PHP and postgresql.

My first hurdle to overcome is how to code for the following?

1. New user fills out form. Once submitted, an autogenerated password will be sent to user via email.

2. User will access site and log in with the option of changing their password.

My question is how to code for this in PHP and store it in postgesql database.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Elizabeth

[mrjam]

There are different ways of doing this. As I'm not familiar with postgresql, and the questons has a "long to very long" answer, here's some tips:

www.php.net

there you have info on:
postgresql (database stuff)
mail() (sending the password to the user)
rand() (for the password generator)
sessions (could be used with the "log-on-to-change-password" page)

Just follow links, and search some. Good luck.