I have purchased amember and the project scope has changed a bit. I need some advice on authentication for a custom web app. Here is the scenario, the website is fitness related. We are going to build some online tools for tracking and fitness training. The question I have is... should the custom app just use the amember member table to authenticate against? Does anyone have experience/suggestions when writing custom apps for your website? It may be easier than I am making it out.
Just use php_include plugin as described at http://manual.amember.com/PHP_Include Or, alternatively, you can enable mod_auth_mysql protection plugin - it will maintain a simple table: username, password for active customers.
Thanks! Alex, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for your quick reply! I really appreciate it. If I can keep the custom database work separate from amember, that will be the way to go.