Chapter 13. Controlling Access

Dreamweaver includes four User Authentication server behaviors—Log In User, Check New Username, Restrict Access to Page, and Log Out User—that you can use to control access to your entire site or certain sections of it. Before you add these User Authentication server behaviors to your site pages, however, you need to create a database table to store user information. If you want to include different access levels for the site so that registered users can access more sections of the site than unregistered users can, you’ll also need to add access information to the database table.

Once you’ve created the database table, you can create a registration page to register users, and a login page where registered users ...

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