Re: APEX - Custom User Login

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:16:22 +0200
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S R wrote:
> What's the best way in APEX to handle self-registration of members and
> then using that info for subsequent member login. There'd be a table like:
>
> MEMBERS:
>
> MEMBER_ID VARCHAR2(10)
> MEMMBER_PWD VARCHAR2(20)
> ..
> ..
>
> So new visitors would registers and access to member sites would require
> logging where the id/pwd would match the entry in the MEMBERS table.
>
> I cant find any documentation on how to do this. The documentation I've
> seen relates to pre-created accounts handled via the standard APEX
> methods, but I want to see if there is a way to do what i described above.
Why not use the apex calls for that?

Apex has quite a few mechanisms for user authentication and authorization. You are re-inventing the wheel, and yours seems to be a wooden cart wheel, whereas Apex has bling-bling 20" ones.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Sun Jun 07 2009 - 17:16:22 CEST

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