User Specific Content

[Ajax9111]

Hey There,

I am fairly new to PHP, although I do have some experience editing code.

I am trying to develop an a "area" on my website where my clients have a user name and password that I give to them (they should be able to change the password after logging in), and once they login, user specific information that I have pre-entered will display on a personal page.

So the structure I am looking for would be something like this:

1) I assign my client a username and a default password.
2) I some how define let's say 10 "fields" that are specific to the user.
3) The client logs in to the client area and the 10 fields I defined, display for the user.

Are there any open source programs that do anything like this? Any suggestions where to start? I really appreciate your assistance.

[compbry15]

I don't know about something to do that specifically, but it sounds like you need a CMS (Content Management System). These normally support multiple users and displaying of special pages based on rank, among other numerous features.

Some popular ones are:

Joomla,
Mambo,
Drupal,
just search google for "CMS"