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Alec Plummer
15,181 PointsCreating user login and storing user data to server?
When creating a web app, how would I go about setting up a user login so people can save their preferences? Are there any courses on teamtreehouse that explain this process?
Example. Say I create a color tool to help designers/developers select color palettes to use, I want to create a way for the user to login and save color palettes they've created for future use. It doesn't have to be anything complicated, just a basic login/pass with the ability to retrieve user preferences (in this case, saved color palettes).
Any help with pointing me in the general direction will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
1 Answer
Kevin Korte
28,148 PointsThe login system would be your standard login in system. If they wanted to save a color pallet, I'd have another table to save color pallet info. You could potentially just store and array of the hex values for the colors in the database, and associate that pallet to the current user logged in, using a primary key/foreign key.
So to retrieve you just would have to read the hex values back out, and parse them back into representations of the color.
Alec Plummer
15,181 PointsAlec Plummer
15,181 PointsThanks for the help, I'll give this a try!