HOW TO CREATE LOGIN AND LOGOUT USING SESSION IN PHP
What Will I Learn?
This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple login page and logout page with html and make it active with php session.
Requirements
- It is required that you have good knowledge of HTML5, PHP and MySql.
- You have a database setup already and contains data (name and password), if not check: how to create MySQL database automatically using PHP script and MySQLi queries(Object Oriented Programming).
- WAMP/MAMP/LAMP/XAMPP or any other PHP/MySQL web stack package.
- Text editor; Notepad++, atom, sublime text2 etc. of your choice
Difficulty
- Intermediate ~ Advanced
Tutorial Contents
If you have advanced to making website that contains sensitive information, you would require your users to login and logout to access information, simply to prevent unauthorized access to that data.
This tutorial allows you to use the codes below. You can also use the idea to get you page to work.
Without detailed explanation, it is assumed you understand how POST and GET work with the form tag in html. Let us begin;
STEP 1: CREATE YOUR LOGIN PAGE AND NAME IT INDEX.php
If you don’t have a login page, you could copy the code below;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form class="form" action="login.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="">Name:</label><input type="text" name="entry" placeholder="Name or Email"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="">Password:</label><input type="password" name="pass" placeholder="**********"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login">
<a href="reg_form.php">Register</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
STEP 2:CREATE THE LOGIN.php PAGE
On this page we put the SESSION_START(); this allows you to maintain variables across multiple page loads for the user. Copy the code below
<?php
SESSION_START();
include "db_config.php"; // include your database connection page here
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){
$entry = $_POST['entry'];
$password = md5($_POST['pass']);
$selected_db = mysqli_select_db ($_dbx, 'my_database');
if(!$selected_db){
echo "No Database Selected";
}
$table_query = "SELECT * FROM fisrt_table WHERE NAME = '$entry' AND PASSWORD = '$password'";
$table_result = mysqli_query($_dbx,$table_query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($table_result,MYSQLI_ASSOC);
$count = mysqli_num_rows ($table_result);
if ($count == 1){
$last = 120 + time();
setcookie(logged, date("F jS - g:i a"), $last);
header('location:success.php');
}else{
echo "incorrect Username or Password";
}
}
$_dbx->close();
?>
db_config.php refers to my database connecton page, you put your own there to allow the variables to be pulled.
STEP 3: CREATE YOUR SUCCESS PAGE TO TEST IF WORKING.
<?php
echo "Hello!!,";
if (!isset($_COOKIE['logged'])){
header('location:index.php');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Home</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Welcome to success page</p>
<p><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></p>
</body>
</html>
STEP 4: CREATE THE LOGOUT PAGE
This destroys all the variables stored on the page loads.
<?php
session_destroy();
$last = -10 + time(); //how long you wish the session to last
setcookie(logged, date("F jS - g:i a"), $last);
header('location:index.php');
?>
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