Gavin, Download PHP-Nuke and look to see how they handle Non-Users/users/Admins and go from there. It's actually quite easy. They have a table structure that you could utilize and some generic routines for determining if a user is logged in or if they are an Admin. www.phpnuke.org Jim -------Original Message------- From: Gavin Amm Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 05:05:32 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Members area Hi All, I'm about to start development on a members area for a site. The members area will have 2 levels - Paid & Free, with the Paid members having access to more pages. I have not created a members area before & am after any advice or links I can get... I think a lot of reading is in order... Particularly: - DB structure & fields (I'll be using MySQL if that's relevant) - Sessions (I've seen quite a few threads covering sessions over the last couple of months, so should have some links in my 'inbox' somewhere... But the more the merrier...) - Any PHP suggestions/advice/links - Anything else you can think is relevant... Thanks, this will be a big help. Cheers, Gav -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php .