sorry maybe i left myself open to that, maybe i should explain a little further where £900 comes from. £250 is my actual quote for a unique design not to be resold, the rest of the money is actually for 6 months work editing his actual photographs, its my mistake including that under my quote price in my first post.
the need for this login etc is simply so his clients can look at their photos before buying, without the photos been made public. the only reason i am looking at this as a solution is his 'friend' that was going to do php after my design has gone awol, so he wants something that will allow the site to go live. This hasnt affected the price etc, its simply something im trying to help with if i can, was just wondering if there was any better way.
I have access to a mysql database with my host, so maybe even if there is walkthroughs to setting up a simple database? i did some of it in college etc, but never in any great detail.
sorry for my first post, i dont think i covered things quite right.