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PHP & MySQL Login Tutorial Series
Pt1: Introduction
Pt2: Setting up the database
Pt3: The front end and user validation
Pt4: The code to privatize a page
Pt5: Logout function and clearing the session ID
Part 5: Logout functions
Our final function is the logout function that will wipe our session. That function is simpler and looks like this:
<?php
function logout() {
$sessionid =$_COOKIE[test_account];
@setcookie [...]

PHP & MySQL Login Tutorial Series
Pt1: Introduction
Pt2: Setting up the database
Pt3: The front end and user validation
Pt4: The code to privatize a page
Pt5: Logout function and clearing the session ID
Part 4: Privatizing your pages
Now let’s look at the status function. This function will be called on every page we want to protect. It will check [...]

PHP & MySQL Login Tutorial Series
Pt1: Introduction
Pt2: Setting up the database
Pt3: The front end and user validation
Pt4: The code to privatize a page
Pt5: Logout function and clearing the session ID
Part 3: Frontend form and validation
In this example we’re going to have a simple page that will display username and password text fields if a user [...]

PHP & MySQL Login Tutorial Series
Pt1: Introduction
Pt2: Setting up the database
Pt3: The front end and user validation
Pt4: The code to privatize a page
Pt5: Logout function and clearing the session ID
Part 2: Creating the MySQL database
Before we get to programming, let’s setup the databases. You will need to create two different tables—one for user accounts and [...]

PHP & MySQL Login Tutorial Series
Pt1: Introduction
Pt2: Setting up the database
Pt3: The front end and user validation
Pt4: The code to privatize a page
Pt5: Logout function and clearing the session ID
Part 1: Introduction
Sometimes it’s important to restrict access to certain parts of a website, and the best way to regulate this access is through a user [...]