Re: Need login suggestions

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Slightly OT, but I can't think of a better forum to ask this in. I'm sure a > lot of us here have at some point or another built a system that requires > registration to gain access. What I'm trying to figure is how to set > different levels of access. > > > > We're building a large site for a school district, to be used by both > students and parents. When a student logs in, they gain some access to the > site, and when a parent logs in, they gain access to other sections on the > site. That's all fine and dandy, it's the actual registration process that > I'm having a hard time with. > > > > How to determine if a registration is a student or a parent. Do I simply > give them a check box (or other method) to pick from (student or parent) and > hope they're being honest? Has anyone here have to deal with that in the > past, and would you be willing to give me some ideas of what you did? > Thanks! Ideally you need to be able to unambiguously identify either a student or a parent, you're best bet is to go for student - thus try and find a single bit of information that both a student and you know about that student, possibilities are: student id class teacher year and so forth.. if the person signing up has any of these things then they must be a student. Best, Nathan