Oh man…

I wish this wasn’t a plus tut.

This is something I’ve been looking for a while now. I need a basic PHP login system that can also reset passwords. I’m trying Kohana as a PHP framework and it has a basic Authentication module, but it does not include a reset/forgot your password functionality.

I hope this or something like this gets put on the regular tuts site.

There’s no video?

It’s pretty good, but I found there to be a few grammar mistakes + all throughout the tut you had:

which I found to be pretty entertaining

I’ll have to read through this later this evening but I’m curious about the Full-Featured Simple Login System.

Why do you guys complain so much?

guys its not that hard, :-

register, send activation link, md5 (which is easy stuff), sessions, mysql.

I just finised writing my own system with sql injection etc and lots of security, in less than 5 days, tbh i think more Advanced tutorials should be PLUSed. not this.

Your mysql dump file is not formatted correctly and is generating errors, when I try to import. Very nice tutorial though.

Ill have to read through this one later. I would really love to build a login system

It’s sorrowful that I cann’t watch it..

In place of the protect function could you just wrap your $_POST elements with mysql_real_escape_string?

Well I am glad to be a member.

I would love to see some tuts for commerce sites. I was researching prestashop. But you hardly find any tips or tutorials.

Keep on rocking

This tutorial my be free as there are standard tutorial on net about login.
One other issue. As there member system need credit card so that many user do not use this. So will you change the subscription system.

Thanks man! It’s great!

I will use this

I think i need to beocme a member just to see this!

Hey thanks alot for all the great comments guys, and thanks for sorting out my SQL file David. I will admit that when it comes to SQL im not one of the most confident people but i always give it a go.

As for the comments about it being basic, i have stated at the begining of my tutorial the fact that i have written in for new programmers

“I made this tutorial to primarily target new-to-PHP developers, due to the fact that, when I started, I noticed the lack in quantity of basic login systems.”

Yes Mike, you could just wrap you $_POST data with the mysql_real_escape_string() function, i just do my own function out of personal prefference.

Again, Thanks a lot guys

People, it’s 9 bucks a month man. Lynda.com charges 25 a month just for videos. No written tutorials.

I only just started nettuts, but this is the first members-only article I’ve seen on any of the tuts+ sites.

What’s interesting is the number of web and web-only publishers who are now charging for content. It seems to be growing quickly, but is it beneficial to the website? I’m especially concerned because a lot of users, as some stated above, will just go elsewhere for the content. (I already have a book, PHP Solutions by David Powers, that covers building a login system.)

I wonder if charging users for content is more profitable than charging for ad space, and if the average user will stand for it. Personally, I wouldn’t buy a subscription to nettuts — only because I use a lot of similar sites and paying subscriptions to all of them would be very expensive, much like buying subscriptions to several magazines in the “old” days would be very expensive.

Still, I think it’ll be interesting to see how this new model plays out…

There are many tutorials on nettuts about membership systems, why is this one so special to be PLUS?

is this system secure?

That’s gotta be some tutorial. I’ve got a nice CI authentication and user management system that I wrote, and it’s at about 2000+ lines of code. It has various modes of user registration, password recovery by email link, user search/sort/update/delete, multi-levels of users and admins, supports disabling the login per IP or per username, optional persistent login, and a lot more. Best of all, it is CI, so it uses flash sessions for form posts, form validation, input filtering, active record for clean sql, and all that good stuff we love about CI. I’m going to be fine tuning it over the next few weeks, and hopefully post it in the CI wiki shortly after the CI 1.7.2 release. The CI forum makes it sounds like 1.7.2 is really close to being released. A tutorial for making my system would take… many many hours. Fortunately, using it is really simple.

I wish you had written this so that the passwords are stored encrypted. Then have the “forgot password” section send a new, random password. Of course then you’d need a “reset password” section so users could their preferred password back in.

My country is not on the list on the payment page so i can’t even get a plus account. Not fair at all

Hi there,

I’ll maybe take an account not just for this tuts but… Is this tut work with a data base ? like sql or so ?

Thanks !!
R. from france.

I think it’s fair enough for them to charge for some tuts, cause the free tutorials here are among the best you can find online. Plus you don’t have to pay if you don’t want to. We should be grateful for sites like this, cause they have made the effort to help the community, but people are always greedy, you give them the finger, they want the whole arm. If you read all the free tutorials about PHP here and you are not able to do full featured login system on your own, then you should seriously think about changing your profession to something else.

Looks like I might be getting a Tuts+ account to view this one.

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the great tut, it’s perfect for a crossover designer learning the ropes.
I have a few questions:

I keep getting these errors that I feel are pretty simple, but since I’m a php n00b I don’t know how to fix them. I’ve listed the, page, error notice, and the relevent line of code below:

———————————————————————————————
/login.php

Notice: Undefined index: submit in C:\wamp\www\cms sci\login.php on line 22

line 22: if($_POST['submit']){

————

/register.php

Notice: Undefined variable: INFO in C:\wamp\www\cms sci\register.php on line 100

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at “localhost”
port 25, verify your “SMTP” and “smtp_port” setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wamp\www\cms sci\register.php on line 100

line 100: mail($email, $INFO['chatName'].’ registration confirmation’, “Registration email “.$username.

—–

/forgot.php

Notice: Undefined index: submit in C:\wamp\www\cms sci\forgot.php on line 22

line 22: if($_POST['submit']){

——————————————————————————————————-

Everything else works fine. Any advice on what’s going on here would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again.

Thanks for the great tut. How do we keep people out of the restricted area if they’re not logged in? I tried using the UsersOnline code, but it just says “restricted area…” but then shows the content just the same.

Thanks

Can there easily be added a Admin Approval step? I would like to approve the new accounts before they have access. Thanks.

Hey, I keep getting a header issue: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by ……
Anyone know how to fix this? Ive tried removing white space and the issue persists.

who/how do I contact regarding clarity/help on the ‘back to login.php’ step of this plus tutorial.

in the mentioned step, when I add the the ‘back to login.php’ to step 2 ‘creating the login page’, it doesn’t function as it is written in the tutorial.

sorry, but there wasn’t any documentation in the downloaded material on who to contact if things didn’t seem right.

there are some parts missing in this tut! like keeping people out of the private area…

Hi,

I am trying to run the SQL for the table users and keep getting the following error:

#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘‘0′,
`email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`active` int(1) NOT NULL default ‘0′,
‘ at line 5

Does Anyone know what may be causing this?