[phpesp-general] Respondent authentication

[Matthew P. G. <vid...@ho...>]

I'm working on a deployment of phpESP which needs to allow public users
(anyone in the county) to complete a survey only after they have provided
username, password, first name, last name, and email address.

There MUST be an easy way to do this, but I haven't found one.

I don't want to have to upload every possible user in the county (that was
already suggested to me), and then mail or email them all usernames and
password.

Survey is set up and tested, and published private. I have the html form
created, and have successfully created a validation script, which just
basically checks that they submitted real information in the input boxes.

I'm trying to write data from the form directly to the respondent table (any
insights on this greatly appreciated).

My big question is  . . . what do I do with this data once I have it written
to respondent?

I'd like to be able to immediately authenticate them against the respondent
table and pass the user into the private survey.

Any ideas how I accomplish this? PHP session or something? This seems pretty
straight forward and someone must have developed this already.

I'm pretty new to authentication and php in general, so please forgive me if
this is totally basic.
 
Thanks!
Matthew
vid...@ho...