i feel dumb

I'm brand new to PHP coding, but I want to make a website that I can have users sign up for the website's services...I'm doing one of those for college kids by a college kid websites and i want to make sure that you have to log in to use its services. How do i go about doing this?

thanks,
jim

You'll need a form created using HTML to gather the details of the people who are signing up, and a database to store the details in. Then you need a PHP script to process the HTML form, and put the details in the database.

In fact you can use the same PHP script to serve up the form and process it. I would suggest you get a couple of good books that will explain in some detail how to do all this. The O'Reilly series is commonly agreed to be about the best although most basic books will cover the subject. You'll probably want the HTML book and the PHP book.