Complete advanced login member system - PHP tutorial

January 11, 2008

In this advanced tutorial i will teach you the steps required to create a custom build login/member system with PHP.

The system itself ofcourse has alot of room for improvements, also, it’s very easily expandable, i’ve chosen to work in a modular way, so that if you change something you only have to change it in 1 file. I’ve done this by using functions, this script is a good example of the real power of PHP.

Features:

• Registration
• Lost password
• Various checks on passwords and usernames
• users can change their password
• Passwords are stored in a database with a seed added to it and they have sha1 encryption
• Easy to adjust & use

Requirements:

• Mysql database
• a php & mysql enabled host
• php mail() enabled host
• ftp access to your website

Overview

Steps:

1. Creating the mysql table
2. Creating a db_connect.inc.php file
3. Creating the header.php file
4. Creating the footer.php file
5. Creating the index.php file
6. Creating the login.php file
7. Creating the logout.php file
8. Creating a function.inc.php file
9. Creating the mail.functions.inc.php file
10. Creating the display.functions.inc.php file
11. Creating the login.functions.inc.php file
12. Creating the user.functions.inc.php file
13. Creating the validation.functions.inc.php file
14. Creating the lostpassword.php file
15. Creating the changepassword.php file
16. Creating the register.php file
17. Creating the activate.php file

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