PHP Tutorials

A tutorial that shows you how to create a moderately secure page that only users can view. No database required! You create/remove the users manually with passwords as well.

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a user authentication system using PHP/MySQL. It takes you through creating an appropriate MySQL table, and a sample PHP login form script.

One of the new great features with PHP4 is the session management feature. It allows you to store variables in a session 'object' during a user visit. This article discusses what a session and a session variable are, and what it can do.

This three-page online tutorial/article talks about managing user session and authntication using PHPLIB, a set of PHP classes designed to make is easier to develop web based PHP applications.

It is quite common to have the need to password protect a certain file or a set of files, in order to prevent unauthorized access to those files. There are many different alternatives on how to do this including, sessions, cookies, JavaScript and HTTP aut

So now that your web site is up and running, you're interested in giving your users' the ability to login to their own personalized account with a membership system unique to your web site. Well guess what? The process isn't really that difficult, and if

One cool thing about php is that you can fairly easily validate users before displaying content on a page by page basis. Lets say you don't want to restrict the entire directory using htaccess, this is a neat alternative. This tutorial shows how to creat.

This will detect the amount of visitors on your site. Requires access to mySQL database.

HTTP as a protocol is stateless, which doesn't make it easy for a developer. For example, your web server sends out a page to someone ordering from an online shop, and then forgets all about it. A few seconds later, the same person sends another request,

This tutorial sows you how a simple php login system is created.

This tutorial describes three methods to authenticate a user. First is by hardcoding the user info in the script. Second, check the user information in the database. Third is by adding image verification in the login form where the user must enter the ran

Learn how to develop a login system using PHP and MySQL. This is a great tutorial which is very helpful and benefficial to the beginner-medium skilled PHP coder.

This tutorial along with sample code explains how to make a hardcoded admin password gateway using PHP. It also covers how to use .htaccess for server side password protection.

This is a short tutorial on how to use the sessions (in PHP4) with a user, form-based login. This would be useful for just about any site where you had a "members only" area and wanted to validate the users from a database or anything else. The examples u