Web Master Tutorials

The frontend form and the PHP user login validation script

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 [...]

Creating the database for your PHP & MySQL login script

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 [...]

Simple PHP/MySQL user login tutorial. Make parts of your website private with a login.

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 [...]

Todays unexpected Google PageRank update. New pageranks for September 08

Todays unexpected Google PageRank update. New pageranks for September 08

If you haven’t noticed already, Google has just updated it PageRank for September 2008! I am happy to say that my main website, ReadySetConnect has gone up a rank from PR4 to PR5. I am also pleased to say that the PageRank of the web hosting blogs stayed at PR4. I was actually expecting it [...]

Web forum marketing: Forums are the best free way to promote a website

Web forum marketing: Forums are the best free way to promote a website

When it comes to starting a successful website, you must divide your efforts into two main areas:Developing content and ways to drive traffic to that content. In order to be successful, you need to invest extensively(time and money) into each area. You may have the best looking website with the most awesome content in the [...]

The biggest hosting company is not always the best. Startup web hosts can provide something a large host can’t.

The biggest hosting company is not always the best. Startup web hosts can provide something a large host can't.

While the most well known web hosts like HostGator, BlueHost, DreamHost, Yahoo, etc. have the most customers, it doesn’t mean that they are the best web hosting providers out there. In fact, there is something that a smaller, start up, host can offer that these providers can not – a personalized service. The larger, well known, hosts have so many customers that you are just a another number out of the hundreds of thousands of other clients. A smaller web host will go that extra yard because your business means a lot more to them than your well known hosting options.

How can a blog help your main website? Setting up a blog to increase web traffic.

How can a blog help your main website? Setting up a blog to increase web traffic.

Ok, I know what you all are thinking: ‘oh no not another – why a web blog is great article’. In this article I am not trying to convince you to start a blog, rather to share my experience with my web hosting blog that I started 6 months ago.
When I first thought [...]