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Oct 24.2014

I am looking for a solution for visitors to my site that will require each visitor to register/log in, gather some basic information about the visitor, then keep track of the pages that specific visitor clicks on each time he visits. Is there a ready-made solution for this? My site is under development and is a Weebly site. I am not a web designer, engineer, etc, – just a business person trying to develop a new website. And guidance would be appreciated.

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@ExplainToKerryauthorOct 25.2014 — Anyone? Buehler?
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@deathshadowOct 25.2014 — 1) You are asking for several hundred lines of code that is best suited to being customized to the needs of the site, while there are things to kick-start such a project like codeignitor, using them is more of a code bloat crutch than the right approach. You are either going to have to learn PHP and SQL, or hire someone who understands it.

2) You're on weebly, they don't give you that level of control on their nube predating scam artist bull that dupes people into THINKING they can build a website.
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@ExplainToKerryauthorOct 25.2014 — Thanks for the reply deathshadow! It seems you are not overly impressed with Weebly. Maybe I would feel the same if I understood this general technology better. And, or if I had a bigger budget. If I move my Weebly site to a host such as Dreamhost, etc., does that then allow me to move forward with a PHP developer who could write code to support my goal? From what I have read here and there, it is the need to maintain a database associated with my site and the goal of tracking visitors and clicks that is the thing which is not supportable with my current Weebly-hosted environment. Do I understand that correctly? Is the Codeignitor platform that you mentioned a poor man's interim solution?
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@wisyhamboluOct 27.2014 — please i am a final year student studying computer science and i am to develop an automobile plant management system, please i need help
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@ginerjmOct 27.2014 — Good luck with that project. As a final year student you should be well qualified to begin writing it. Jump right in and work on it and THEN ask for help .
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@deathshadowOct 28.2014 — Well, unfortunately sites built using weebly are also NOT easily transferred to other hosting platforms because the back end of theirs is proprietary. It's just another of the things that makes it just a wee bit of a scam. It can be done, but it takes a good deal of reverse-engineering the front end and given what train wrecks the sites vomited up by weebly are on an accessibility front, you're typically better off starting over from scratch than trying to use anything they did for you.

When/if you can do so, having a developer build a site properly for you that will do what you are asking will likely mean tossing a good deal if not all of what you already have. I would REALLY advise against ANY shortcuts or trying to jump the gun by "cheaping out" on the process, all it will do is bite you in the backside in the long-term. It is way too easy to fall into the "Now, now, now" trap, aka the "credit mentality" of paying more later for something you can't afford now. Basically if you can't put in the time or investment to do it properly now, you probably shouldn't be doing it now.

Slamming together off the shelf solutions and predatory scam "site builders" is a hefty part of why the vast majority of Internet startups don't last six months; or if they do they are web rot where the number of conversions is a fraction the site's potential.
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