User account systems with a database...?

[idontknow07]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction on how to create a account system for users using flash.

I know I will have to use php/mysql, but I have no idea where to begin...

What I need is to setup a system where users can register, login, play our games to win points to gain access to other areas of the site...

I can create the registration part of the site and the login form... How will I be able to set the login script to read from the database to pull account details and later on save progress to the database for that user?

I hope I make sense...

Thanks.

[cholin]

For the PHP part, I don't know how much you know, but I would use sessions to store the user's variables.

so $_SESSION['username'] = addslashes(..... etc

and then simply transfer it all to flash each time a page loads with flash on it -- either by XML file (like most game sites use) or setting variables.
Then when you want to save a score, use XML objects in Flash or URLs to call a php script that updates the score. Make sure that it has some sort of validation because you dont want your users calling updatescores.php?score=50000000...