Different Home page for each user

[priyakochin]

I have developed a MLM system and now what I need is to have the feature of different homepage for different users.Is that possible ?

Any idea ?

[roosevelt]

Well I don't know how you are tracking your users but I would store the users into groups, and display web pages depending on the groups.

<?php

switch($groupid)
{
     case 1:
          include('group1homepage.php');
          break;
     case 2:
          include('group1homepage.php');
          break;
}

?>

[imaginethis]

@priyakochin It's completely possible.

Well I don't know how you are tracking your users but I would store the users into groups, and display web pages depending on the groups.

<?php

switch($groupid)
{
     case 1:
          include('group1homepage.php');
          break;
     case 2:
          include('group1homepage.php');
          break;
}

?>

That's horribly inefficient.

[roosevelt]

haha, I was gonna suggest a CMS or MVC, but from the looks of post priyakochin seems new in PHP and building his own. So, don't want to take the excitement away by throwing something that's already done.

However, I do agree with you.

[imaginethis]

CMS? MVC? I don't see how even apply to his question... But chances are if he's willing to build his own, he's at least making an attempt to learn you could at least encourage his attempts at knowledge by providing him with information. If he doesn't know or understand he'll ask for clarification or better yet go searching for clarity.

[priyakochin]

haha, I was gonna suggest a CMS or MVC, but from the looks of post priyakochin seems new in PHP and building his own. So, don't want to take the excitement away by throwing something that's already done.

However, I do agree with you.

No Mate I am not new to php, I am not looking for such a method
What I am looking is not that you suggest.Its a simple method, that a newbie can think of.

[roosevelt]

I was referring to my example. First I wanted to suggest a MVC, so he can learn about it and build a good software from that framework. And from my experience you don't even have to an expert to get the basics of a framework.

However, then I realized, he probably isn't familiar with the switch statements, or perhaps he's looking for the quickest way to accomplish what he wants to do. That's why I suggested that.

What would you recommend? It's not his question but from your suggestions, it seems you got much better information. I am curious to learn as well.

Edit:

Some methods would be.

1) Build a membership database where users are assigned to specific groups. And depending on the group you load contents.

2) If the memberlist isn't that big, then you can store the user ids in a file, and later parse it to generate customized pages for different users.

[imaginethis]

It would be far simpler to just create a template for each user when an account is created.

[priyakochin]

It would be far simpler to just create a template for each user when an account is created.

I am just going to try one thing, just pass a tempid with the user, so the template with that id is shown.



let me try it.

[imaginethis]

I am just going to try one thing, just pass a tempid with the user, so the template with that id is shown.



let me try it.

Er... When you said different home page for each user, I thought you were talking about something more like giving users their "own" home page that they can customize.... I may have read a little bit too much into your statement ^_^