How to use SSL in PHP?

[web_designer_iq]

Hello..
I have an e-commerce web site and i want to use SSL techonlogy in my web site.
I don't have any problem with installing SSL in web server but i have a problem with PHP. How to use SSL in PHP language?
Note: I'm using PHP & MySQL and (sessions) for users control panel.
Thank you very much 🙂

[Shrike]

PHP doesn't really have anything to do with SSL. You'll install an SSL module like mod_ssl for Apache, buy a certificate and then answer requests on port 443. PHP code will not change.

[Pieman86]

Yeah, the PHP code will stay the same. People just use [url]https://your_url[/url] instead of [url]http://your_url[/url] to access your site. If you want to force all visitors to use SSL then you can have a function like this, which you call at the top of every page:

function SSL_page()
{
   if ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'on')
   {
      header("Location: https://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}".
                               "{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}");
      exit();
   }
}

That seems to work for Apache/Linux and PHP5 anyway, you may need to tweak it slightly.

[web_designer_iq]

Thank you my dear for code..
I don't have any problem(s) with SSL certificate! which i'm install a SSL certificate from verisign company without any problem.
my question is: just installing certificate that suffice? which without intervention from PHP or from web master?
🙂 thanks