Login Creation Help

ghetalion

I have been coding PHP for about a month. Being that I have had previous training in C++ for two years, the conversion over was a breeze. The only thing I had to get used to was the fact that this is a parsing language. This leads me to my curernt problem.

I'm not expecting help within a reply to this message. Just perhaps a link to a webpage that has tutorials on how to create a login account system that checks against login information in a mySQL database table. I have bothered friends, scoured this site, scoured other sites, and I have yet to come accross a coherent FAQs or tutorial on how to properly build logins.(cookies OR sessions will do)

Snippets of complicated code with local functions all over the board will not help me in the slightest. Just a step by step maneuvering on how to create these accursed boxes of user validation is all I request.

~Ghetalion

vortex

heres one I made earlier :

<?php include "mysql_data.php";

 $id = $username;
 setcookie("userid","$id","mktime(0,0,0,0,0,2020)");

 $userid = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["userid"];

 mysql_connect("$host","$login","$pass")
     or die ("Unable to connect to database");
 mysql_select_db("$swadb")
     or die ("Unable to select Database.");

 $sql = "SELECT id
         FROM swa_members
         WHERE name='$username' and pass_word='$password'";

 $result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Couldn't get Results");

 $num = mysql_numrows($result) or die ("Couldnt get count.");

 if ($num == 1) {
     echo "LOGIN SUCCESSFUL";

} else {
echo "LOGIN FAILURE";
}
?>

hope this is of some help