Create a simple login system with php + mysql script,
Follow these following steps:
Overview
In this tutorial, we create 3 php files for testing our code.
1. main_login.php
2. checklogin.php
3. login_success.php
Steps
1. Create table "
members" in database "
test".
2. Create file
main_login.php.
3. Create file
checklogin.php.
4. Create file
login_success.php.
5. Create file
logout.php
If you don't know how to create database, click here
STEP1: Create table "
members"
For testing this code, we need to create database "test" and create table "members".
CREATE TABLE 'members' (
'id' int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
'username' varchar(65) NOT NULL default '',
'password' varchar(65) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY ('id')
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=2 ;
--
-- Dumping data for table 'members'
--
INSERT INTO `members` VALUES (1, 'john', '1234');
STEP2: Create file main_login.php
The first file we need to create is "
main_login.php" which is a login form.
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############### Code
<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="checklogin.php">
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Member Login </strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="78">Username</td>
<td width="6">:</td>
<td width="294"><input name="myusername" type="text" id="myusername"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="mypassword" type="text" id="mypassword"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</form>
</tr>
</table>
STEP3: Create file checklogin.php
We have a login form in step 2, when a user submit their username and password, PHP code in checklogin.php will check that this user exist in our database or not.
If user has the right username and password, then the code will register username and password in the session and redirect to "
login_success.php". If username or password is wrong the system will show "
Wrong Username or Password".
############### Code
<?php
$host="localhost"; // Host name
$username=""; // Mysql username
$password=""; // Mysql password
$db_name="test"; // Database name
$tbl_name="members"; // Table name
// Connect to server and select databse.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
// username and password sent from form
$myusername=$_POST['myusername'];
$mypassword=$_POST['mypassword'];
// To protect MySQL injection (more detail about MySQL injection)
$myusername = stripslashes($myusername);
$mypassword = stripslashes($mypassword);
$myusername = mysql_real_escape_string($myusername);
$mypassword = mysql_real_escape_string($mypassword);
$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE username='$myusername' and password='$mypassword'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
// Mysql_num_row is counting table row
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
// If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1 row
if($count==1){
// Register $myusername, $mypassword and redirect to file "login_success.php"
session_register("myusername");
session_register("mypassword");
header("location:login_success.php");
}
else {
echo "Wrong Username or Password";
}
?>
STEP4: Create file login_success.php
User can't view this page if the session is not registered.
############### Code
// Check if session is not registered, redirect back to main page.
// Put this code in first line of web page.
<?php
session_start();
if(!session_is_registered(myusername)){
header("location:main_login.php");
}
?>
<html>
<body>
Login Successful
</body>
</html>
STEP5: Create file Logout.php
If you want to logout, create this file. The code in this file will destroy the session.
// Put this code in first line of web page.
<?php
session_start();
session_destroy();
?>
For PHP5 User - checklogin.php
############### Code
<?php
ob_start();
$host="localhost"; // Host name
$username=""; // Mysql username
$password=""; // Mysql password
$db_name="test"; // Database name
$tbl_name="members"; // Table name
// Connect to server and select databse.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
// Define $myusername and $mypassword
$myusername=$_POST['myusername'];
$mypassword=$_POST['mypassword'];
// To protect MySQL injection (more detail about MySQL injection)
$myusername = stripslashes($myusername);
$mypassword = stripslashes($mypassword);
$myusername = mysql_real_escape_string($myusername);
$mypassword = mysql_real_escape_string($mypassword);
$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE username='$myusername' and password='$mypassword'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
// Mysql_num_row is counting table row
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
// If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1 row
if($count==1){
// Register $myusername, $mypassword and redirect to file "login_success.php"
session_register("myusername");
session_register("mypassword");
header("location:login_success.php");
}
else {
echo "Wrong Username or Password";
}
ob_end_flush();
?>
Encrypting Password - Make your Login More Secure
Using
md5(); function to make your login system more secure.
Syntax
$password="123456";
md5($password);
Use md5(); to encrypts password to make it more secure
Overview
Look at these two databases, it's the same person and same info, the first one we don't encrypt his password, but the second one we encrypted his password.
When you encryte "
john856" using this code, you'll see the result
"
ad65d5054042fda44ba3fdc97cee80c6"
This is not a random result, everytime you encrypt the same password you will get the same result.
$password="john856";
$encrypt_password=md5($password);
echo $encrypt_password;
Example - Login
This is an example Login with encrypted password, but don't forget to encrypt password and insert into database when your user sign up.
// username and password sent from form
$myusername=$_POST['myusername'];
$mypassword=$_POST['mypassword'];
// encrypt password
$encrypted_mypassword=md5($mypassword);
$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE username='$myusername' and password='$encrypted_mypassword'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
Thats it. Enjoy php.
