Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be showing you guys how you can create a real-time login form using PHP.
PHP Login with Sessions
The PHP login script offers authentication to different web pages. The script executes after submitting the user login details to the server.
Login Page
A PHP login page should be as follows and works based on sessions. If the user closes the session, it will erase the session data.
<?php ob_start(); session_start(); ?> <? // error_reporting(E_ALL); // ini_set("display_errors", 1); ?> <html lang = "en"> <head> <title>Webdesigntutorialz.com</title> <link href = "css/bootstrap.min.css" rel = "stylesheet"> <style> body { padding-top: 40px; padding-bottom: 40px; background-color: #ADABAB; } .form-signin { max-width: 330px; padding: 15px; margin: 0 auto; color: #017572; } .form-signin .form-signin-heading, .form-signin .checkbox { margin-bottom: 10px; } .form-signin .checkbox { font-weight: normal; } .form-signin .form-control { position: relative; height: auto; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; font-size: 16px; } .form-signin .form-control:focus { z-index: 2; } .form-signin input[type="email"] { margin-bottom: -1px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0; border-bottom-left-radius: 0; border-color:#017572; } .form-signin input[type="password"] { margin-bottom: 10px; border-top-left-radius: 0; border-top-right-radius: 0; border-color:#017572; } h2{ text-align: center; color: #017572; } </style> </head> <body> <h2>Enter Username and Password</h2> <div class = "container form-signin"> <?php $msg = ''; if (isset($_POST['login']) && !empty($_POST['username']) && !empty($_POST['password'])) { if ($_POST['username'] == 'webdesigntutorialz' && $_POST['password'] == '1234') { $_SESSION['valid'] = true; $_SESSION['timeout'] = time(); $_SESSION['username'] = 'webdesigntutorialz'; echo 'You have entered valid use name and password'; }else { $msg = 'Wrong username or password'; } } ?> </div> <!-- /container --> <div class = "container"> <form class = "form-signin" role = "form" action = "<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" method = "post"> <h4 class = "form-signin-heading"><?php echo $msg; ?></h4> <input type = "text" class = "form-control" name = "username" placeholder = "username = webdesigntutorialz" required autofocus></br> <input type = "password" class = "form-control" name = "password" placeholder = "password = 1234" required> <button class = "btn btn-lg btn-primary btn-block" type = "submit" name = "login">Login</button> </form> Click here to clean <a href = "logout.php" tite = "Logout">Session. </div> </body> </html>
Logout.php
The following code below will erase the session data -
<?php session_start(); unset($_SESSION["username"]); unset($_SESSION["password"]); echo 'You have cleaned session'; header('Refresh: 2; URL = login.php'); ?>
Output
When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -
READ: PHP Form Handling
Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about PHP Facebook Login.
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