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Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 2: Logging in and accounts

Leverage the power of XForms for user authentication

Stony Yakovac (syakovac@gmail.com), Software engineer, Freelance
Stony Yakovac is an engineer and freelance author living in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. He works on a wide variety of projects, including software and digital hardware designs.

Summary:  This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 2 of this six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with PHP and MySQL to create the basic "login," "registration," and "account management" functionality seen in many modern Web applications.

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Date:  27 Mar 2007
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (447 KB | 30 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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The login XForms form introduced a basic working subset of XForms concepts. Among the concepts introduced were some basic form controls, "input," "secret," "submit," and "trigger." The XForms control "output," which is used to display data that the user cannot directly alter, was also used. The concept of submission was demonstrated with the data used to replace the instance data behind the XForms implementation. That activity enabled the use of relevant to hide the form and the presence of the new data enabled the demonstration of "repeat" on a nodeset to create a menu.

Future installments of this series refine both the XForms implementations as necessary and the skills involved in XForms implementation. Next, Part 3 will use the concept of asset management to demonstrate more in-depth usage of repeats and another variation of the load action and more.

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