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Good tutorial to user accounts?
You know how on facebook and twitter and pretty much everything else you can sign in and sign up? is that done through PHP, MySQL, HTML, Silverlight, or what? is there any good tutorial that would ultimately let me create my own site like this?
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- adavielLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The accounts are probably stored in MySQL.
The authentication can use HTTP Basic Auth (handled by a webserver module), or cookie-based auth (login with a password, generate a random auth cookie, pass it back to the browser and allow that on subsequent requests). The form with password boxes is written in HTML.
There's probably PHP code available to do it all with MySQL.
