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hbadamihbadami 

Account and self service user creation

HI Guys
 
I am a newbie to the salesforce development platform. I have got a couple of questions, if some one can help me with them.
 
1. Where can I find good material to study the salesforce platform and the API?
2. On my site, I register users. Once these users are registered they are allowed to view certain php pages. Currently the users DB is at my website, but I want sales force to manage all of my users.
I started to work a bit on these requirements. All I know is I need to create an account in sales force based on the organisation name i.e. if the organisation has an account dont create one, otherwise create. Once I am done with the account creation, I need to create a self service user and send the details to the user registered on my website. Then whenever the user needs to login I need to verify his username/password from salesforce or in other words log him into salesforce. This will help me when a user wants to register a case as all I need to do is to open up salesforce register case interface and the user can log in his issue there. What should be the approach in doing this? How can the API help me? I hope this scenario makes sense.
 
I will be highly obliged with any help on this issue. I am using php 5.2.5 on Linux.
Tran ManTran Man
If you haven't already, check out the PHP toolkit.  It helps you make API method calls against the server.  If you prefer, you might want to think about doing some of the logic in Apex Code.

Also check out the API docs on the wiki as well.