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Yea, I'm not sure if this is in the right forum or not, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere. I registered here, and over at xisto with the same email. Now do I also have to register over at Xisto? Or is this completely separate? I also already made some posts. So this is all I have to do, right? And how long does it usually take for your posts to be converted into MyCents? Thanks, and sorry if this is the wrong forum.

I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate edition (x86). I've been having this problem for as long as I've had Vista now and could never find any reliable information about it. I'd say once about every 10 times I start my computer, all of my startup programs will load fine, but the screen will just freeze for a half second every five seconds. When I say freeze, I mean that you can't see the mouse moving, or anything at all moving or updating (including Windows DreamScene). The entire screen just completely freezes. This creates an extremely annoying jerky type of computer environment. Every time this happens I am forced to restart my computer. This also has happened after I have been using my computer for a while (albeit much more rarely). While this might not seem like that big of a problem, it is quite annoying, and if anyone could help me out, that would be great. Thanks.

Just to add to what has been posted and try and explain it in a simpler way:PHP is a server side scripting language. This means that it is a programming language that does all of its processing on the server of your website (unlike javascript which is client-side). You can use it to dynamically change content of your website on the fly. MySQL is a database. It's used to store any kind of data (like a member's table or something). You can use PHP and MySQL together to create some amazing sites.HTML is just a structural markup language. It does not have variables or arrays or any other of the good things from programming languages.

Yes SHA1 would be the best hashing algorithm to use for storing passwords. It's used like this in php: $query1 = mysql_query(INSERT INTO userstable (user, password) VALUES ($user, sha1('".$password."');// This will create the user. The password will be stored as a random 40 character sting, so make sure your table can fit that.$query2 = mysql_query(SELECT * FROM userstable WHERE username = '$user' ANDpassword = sha1('".$password."');//This how you find and select the user... But I do agree that learning php by coding a login system is like learning to use a drill by building a house. You should start off slow and learn the basics before you tackle a login system.