Programming

By Dan • February 27th, 2009

Whether you spend your day working fulltime as a web server administrator, or you like to host a simple website on a spare computer in your basement, one of the best ways to increase your productivity and develop very useful tools is to write programs called scripts. Scripts are normally short, high-level computer programs that [...]

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 [...]

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PHP Tutorial #3 - IF Statements
In order to make a successful PHP website, it is crucial to know how to correctly use if statements. IF statements, similar to CASE, have many advantages. Before we go further into these handy tools, let’s examine what they can do.
The IF statement allows you to control different parts of [...]