Hello people, could someone please explain how I can make a login for your website so people have to login and become users for them to see selected pages. I'm using dreamweaver and and I'm not quite sure how to start as it seems very complicated. I asked this question in the wen design forum and they said to go to the php forum. So do you guys know how to make one?

you have to use sessions [it's recommended]
check this: http://www.google.ro/search?q=php+login+tutorial
and take a look on some tutorials, cause it's a lot to talk

If you have problems, come and ask here

Well, I'm not sure you can use it in dreamweaver, but there are tons of "tweakable" PHP Login scripts that you can use online, and just customize it to the look and feel of your website. Here's the one I'm planning on using on my website:

http://www.php-login-script.com

Try it out! I hope this helps.

If you are inexpierienced with PHP, as it seems you are, then I would strongly reccomend you use a CMS rather than try this yourself.

There are so many potencial security risks with coding your own that you would be better to learn PHP as a whole before trying to jump right in with a login script.

CMS:

http://wordpress.org/ <yes it can be used as a cms
http://silverstripe.org/ <free open source cms

hi I'll give complete code just try it,

<?php
if(isset($_POST['posted']))
{
$name=$_POST['dir_username'];
$pass=$_POST['dir_password'];
$connect=mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
$db=mysql_select_db('dir_db',$connect);
$query=mysql_query('SELECT * FROM dir_login',$connect);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
$column1=$row['username'];
$column2=$row['password'];
if($column1 == $name && $column2 == $pass)
{
header('location:registration_dir.php');
}
else
{
echo('Sorry Username and password is mismatch');
exit();
}
}
}

?>

<form name="index_dir" method="post" action="index_dir.php">
<table align="center" border="">
<tr>
<td>
<b style="background-color:#063">USERNAME</b>
<input type="text" name="dir_username" value="USERNAME" style="background-color:#966">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b style="background-color:#063">PASSWORD</b>
<input type="password" name="dir_password" value="*****" style="background-color:#966">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="hidden" name="posted" value="true>"></td>
<td>
<input type="submit" name="dir_submir" value="GO" style="background-color:#063">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

just create adatabase and table using Mysql, and run it on localhost

Originally Posted by sandeep Kumar

hi I'll give complete code just try it

Did you try it?

Just looking at it I see a couple things wrong. The query as it is will pull every row from the table, which is a waste.

Next it looks like you're attempting to cycle through every record, searching for the correct username / password combination, but since you call exit in the case that the username and password don't match it will only work if the correct record is the first one returned.

You could fix this by adding "WHERE username = '$name'" to the query, but then you'd have to account for sql injections.