Hello All,

Im very new to the DNN enviornment and its pieces. Im having trouble understanding more of a concept then anything else. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Im tasked with converting a classic ASP solution into the DNN framework. What I am wondering is how and moreso where changes would be made that would enhance some DNN core pieces to custom taylor them to my application. For exapmle :

The login module that comes with DNN. In my application when someone hits the login page, and authenticates themself as a valid user. The "handler" (in essence the code behind page) that processes the login information will check that the user is in the db, and once the user is good to go, a session variable set is created. It is done using very simple coding that looks something like this :

If (IsValidUSR(uid,pw)) = TRUE then
   session("user_id") = dbUsrID
   session("default_lang") = dbDefaultLang
   etc...
End If

since DNN is now handling this login process for me, where and how would i create this session variable list, and is there some way to add these session variables as part of a DNN variable collection of sorts?

If im completely off target please let me know, while i am looking for an answer I also want to learn, so im not forced to litter the forum with dumb newbie questions lol :)

thanks in advance,
-John

I understand the DNN enviornment provides me with info about the user and permissions, What im not wrapping the brain can be sumed up in this example:

Say i have one DB Table i created with User Information :
USERID
FNAME
LNAME
ADDRESS

Now i have the system generating the user ID number itself, as either an IDENTITY of GUID data type. I want to build a module that will list all of the people in this table by first and last name only, and when a portal visitor clicks the name of the person another page pops up with the users details. Now in my display page i make the user name a hyperlink that has the id I assigned them in my details table as the query string. The DNN enviornment will not have the value I assigned to them in my table.

I know these are basic questions, but while i understand .net development and have developed asp and vb for many years now, im just not getting how I make DNN understand the values in my tables as opposed to theirs.

Thanks, and sorry for the dumb questions.
-John

p.s.
I will read through the tutorials you linked me to now, thanks allot.