Spec me a website download area script

[Desmo]

Got a friend who's site I designed for him, nothing special, just a multi page HTML site. He's asking for an area where customers can log in to download certain files or information. Each customer needs their own login which they create. I guess they would need to be admin passed and maybe set up for certain areas. I need to meet up with him really to get final details, but does anyone know of any script out there that does this?

[Richard Slater]

Any particular platform? ASP.net, PHP?

[Desmo]

Well my knowledge is pretty limited when it comes to site design, so just something I can upload, customise a little and go with it. Quite happy playing around with HTML/PHP a little.

[Richard Slater]

From what you have said I would extract the following requirements:

1) Customer can register their own username and password pair.
2) Customer can authenticate with site with their username and password pair.
3) Downloads are only available to authenticated customers.

And possibly:
4) different customers have access to different sets of downloads (authorization).

Based on these the hosting would need to support a server side scripting engine such as PHP.

If however he was willing to step back from those requirements, and accept there would only be one login name for all customers, you could use .htaccess (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/howto/htaccess.html) to put a page or a directory on the web server behind a login dialog.