PHP Tutorials: Register & Login: User registration (Part 5)

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[KrishneelKumar]

2015 and your work is amazing, I have learnt more from you than going to lectures, You are a legend.

[digitalgamsawala]

Have been looking for this for the last one year! Thumbs up if you agree with me!

[raygun]

alex, I like how you sometimes make common mistakes that most of us will also make, it just helps the learning a lot when I am making mistakes and solving them. THANK YOU!

[iAgentDrizzy]

Dear Alex, this is the first tutorial that you have made that I have tried my hardest not to exactly duplicate, but to add my own little coding style to it. This tutorial has been AMAZING to help me remember things like semi colons to terminate and just learn altogether, I would recommend anyone in an intermediate level looking to polish up some skills to this tutorial, I love you, =P

[fugazi]

Thanks a lot. I learned some really useful things from the registration tutorial such as keeping the form fields filled in, making sure the password field in the DB can accomodate the password hash, and submitting a form to the same page. Great stuff.

[datrizz]

Thank you SO much for this tutorial! I am a total PHP N00B and I understood everything.

[KomradeVlad]

Your tutorials are very helpful and informative, but I am a php rookie and sometimes it's hard to keep up. I am having trouble with some errors here and there but your acknowledgment of your own mistakes and encouragement to seek through the code for mine has made me feel like I am just making common trip ups like anyone else.

Thanks for a great tutorial, I will definitely be back for more!

~Komrade Vlad

[mudsr]

thanks to your tutorials i was able to complete an assignment for university pretty quickly... thanks for that, you rock! :) keep it going!

[sabexel]

echo "Alex:
Great work, you come to the level of user and then explain every thing absolutely beautiful";

[markyj]

Couple of things, these may be covered in future videos, but wanted to mention here just in case. 1. a password reset function by email, 2. logging into different (personalized) pages depending on user and 3. which I thought should have been mentioned is when someone new registers, there is nothing checking on whether or not a username already exists.
But I will subscribe and keep on these videos and check out other videos to see if I can find these. But very good videos Thanks.

[MarceloChiarella]

Great tutorials, man! Please, keep publishing new ones. Thanks for sharing.

[prageethpasyala]

you are my php hero...thanks mate.your tutorials are very clear..most likely think is the way your are solving errors. its is very help full for me...thanks you very much

[VinnieVincent]

Had to put this in the login.php file

session_start();
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];

$password = md5($password);

the bottom value to be specific. The md5 was not working until I made this change. It was driving me crazy. Now it works.

[sgddfgfghfgh]

I'm still learning php (through these tutorials of course :P) but i think this may work but i may be completely wrong.

You could create a form where user enters his email address

query the database and see if this email address exists with mysql_num_rows

if it exists (does not equal 0 or equals 0)

update the database with a random password (i believe there's a php function which generates random strings)

Then email this code to the user and incorporate the tutorial on password changing.

[sticksiscool]

These are great! Thanks!! I've been looking around for a great example like this.

[nattsurfaren]

The field length in the db was the bug. Very tricky. Good to know. Thanks

[gDoxe]

Anything encrypted with md5 will ALWAYS a length of 32 characters!
Always good to know =)

[felipemcsk]

Hey man i love you... finally something that really works... congratulations...

[mandudehahaha]

Thank you VEEEERRYYYY much! the will make my assignment a great deal easyer!!!

[SeanPannella]

US-CERT now says that MD5 "should be considered cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use." You should you SHA 256, SHA512 or bcrypt which relies on Eksblowfish much safer than md5.