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PHP

Create A Login Form Validation Using PHP And WAMP / XAMPP

Introduction

WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL and any one of PHP, Perl or Python. WAMP server is a local webserver for running the scripting language (PHP, Perl) and this is open source. XAMPP stands for Cross-Platform (X), Apache (A), Maria DB (M), PHP (P) and Perl (P). It is developed by Apache friends. It includes Apache and MySQL, FileZilla, Mercury, Tomcat and Maria DB.

Here, I am going to show how to create a login form validation, using PHP and XAMPP.

Requirements

  • XAMPP/WAMP Server.
  • Brackets (IDE).
  • Little HTML, CSS and PHP knowledge.

Steps given below are required to be followed

Follow the steps to create a login form validation, using PHP and XAMPP. I have included the source code, which is given below.

Step 1

Open XAMPP Control Panel. Start Apache and MySQL Server.

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Step 2

Open your Browser and then type http:// localhost or http://127.0.0.1. After you see XAMPP community page, make sure, if your Server is running or not.

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Step 3

Open XAMPP Control Panel, followed by clicking MySQL admin. Now, create the database for the login validation form.

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Step 4

To create the new database, click New.

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Step 5

Put the database name, which you want. Here, the database name is user-registration, followed by clicking create.

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Step 6

Go to SQL query tab, copy and paste the query given below. Click go. Afterwards, your table (my table name : person) is created successfully.

SQL query 

  1. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `login` (  
  2.   `username` varchar(200) NOT NULL,  
  3.   `password` varchar(200) NOT NULL,  
  4.   PRIMARY KEY (`username`)  
  5. ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;   

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Step 7

Put your Webpage files into the destination folder. Default folder is c:/xampp/htdocs.

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Step 8

Open the bracket(IDE) and create the login.php file. Copy the code given below and paste into login.php 

  1. <!doctype html>  
  2. <html>  
  3. <head>  
  4. <title>Login</title>  
  5.     <style>   
  6.         body{  
  7.               
  8.     margin-top: 100px;  
  9.     margin-bottom: 100px;  
  10.     margin-right: 150px;  
  11.     margin-left: 80px;  
  12.     background-color: azure ;  
  13.     color: palevioletred;  
  14.     font-family: verdana;  
  15.     font-size: 100%  
  16.       
  17.         }  
  18.             h1 {  
  19.     color: indigo;  
  20.     font-family: verdana;  
  21.     font-size: 100%;  
  22. }  
  23.         h3 {  
  24.     color: indigo;  
  25.     font-family: verdana;  
  26.     font-size: 100%;  
  27. } </style>  
  28. </head>  
  29. <body>  
  30.      <center><h1>CREATE REGISTRATION AND LOGIN FORM USING PHP AND MYSQL</h1></center>  
  31.    <p><a href="register.php">Register</a> | <a href="login.php">Login</a></p>  
  32. <h3>Login Form</h3>  
  33. <form action="" method="POST">  
  34. Username: <input type="text" name="user"><br />  
  35. Password: <input type="password" name="pass"><br />   
  36. <input type="submit" value="Login" name="submit" />  
  37. </form>  
  38. <?php  
  39. if(isset($_POST["submit"])){  
  40.   
  41. if(!empty($_POST['user']) && !empty($_POST['pass'])) {  
  42.     $user=$_POST['user'];  
  43.     $pass=$_POST['pass'];  
  44.   
  45.     $con=mysql_connect('localhost','root','') or die(mysql_error());  
  46.     mysql_select_db('user_registration') or die("cannot select DB");  
  47.   
  48.     $query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM login WHERE username='".$user."' AND password='".$pass."'");  
  49.     $numrows=mysql_num_rows($query);  
  50.     if($numrows!=0)  
  51.     {  
  52.     while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($query))  
  53.     {  
  54.     $dbusername=$row['username'];  
  55.     $dbpassword=$row['password'];  
  56.     }  
  57.   
  58.     if($user == $dbusername && $pass == $dbpassword)  
  59.     {  
  60.     session_start();  
  61.     $_SESSION['sess_user']=$user;  
  62.   
  63.     /* Redirect browser */  
  64.     header("Location: member.php");  
  65.     }  
  66.     } else {  
  67.     echo "Invalid username or password!";  
  68.     }  
  69.   
  70. } else {  
  71.     echo "All fields are required!";  
  72. }  
  73. }  
  74. ?>  
  75. </body>  
  76. </html>   

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Step 9

Create the register.php file. Copy the code given below and paste into register.php.

register.php 

  1. <!doctype html>  
  2. <html>  
  3. <head>  
  4. <title>Register</title>  
  5.     <style>   
  6.         body{  
  7.     margin-top: 100px;  
  8.     margin-bottom: 100px;  
  9.     margin-right: 150px;  
  10.     margin-left: 80px;  
  11.     background-color: azure ;  
  12.     color: palevioletred;  
  13.     font-family: verdana;  
  14.     font-size: 100%  
  15.       
  16.         }  
  17.             h1 {  
  18.     color: indigo;  
  19.     font-family: verdana;  
  20.     font-size: 100%;  
  21. }  
  22.          h2 {  
  23.     color: indigo;  
  24.     font-family: verdana;  
  25.     font-size: 100%;  
  26. }</style>  
  27. </head>  
  28. <body>  
  29.      
  30.     <center><h1>CREATE REGISTRATION AND LOGIN FORM USING PHP AND MYSQL</h1></center>  
  31.    <p><a href="register.php">Register</a> | <a href="login.php">Login</a></p>  
  32.     <center><h2>Registration Form</h2></center>  
  33. <form action="" method="POST">  
  34.     <legend>  
  35.     <fieldset>  
  36.           
  37. Username: <input type="text" name="user"><br />  
  38. Password: <input type="password" name="pass"><br />   
  39. <input type="submit" value="Register" name="submit" />  
  40.               
  41.         </fieldset>  
  42.         </legend>  
  43. </form>  
  44. <?php  
  45. if(isset($_POST["submit"])){  
  46. if(!empty($_POST['user']) && !empty($_POST['pass'])) {  
  47.     $user=$_POST['user'];  
  48.     $pass=$_POST['pass'];  
  49.     $con=mysql_connect('localhost','root','') or die(mysql_error());  
  50.     mysql_select_db('user_registration') or die("cannot select DB");  
  51.   
  52.     $query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM login WHERE username='".$user."'");  
  53.     $numrows=mysql_num_rows($query);  
  54.     if($numrows==0)  
  55.     {  
  56.     $sql="INSERT INTO login(username,password) VALUES('$user','$pass')";  
  57.   
  58.     $result=mysql_query($sql);  
  59.         if($result){  
  60.     echo "Account Successfully Created";  
  61.     } else {  
  62.     echo "Failure!";  
  63.     }  
  64.   
  65.     } else {  
  66.     echo "That username already exists! Please try again with another.";  
  67.     }  
  68.   
  69. } else {  
  70.     echo "All fields are required!";  
  71. }  
  72. }  
  73. ?>  
  74. </body>  
  75. </html>   

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Register your username and password. Do not use the already used usernames.

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Step 10

Create the logout.php file. Copy the code given below and paste into logout.php.

logout.php

  1. <?php   
  2. session_start();  
  3. unset($_SESSION['sess_user']);  
  4. session_destroy();  
  5. header("location:login.php");  
  6. ?>  

Step 13

Create the member.php file. Copy the code given below and paste into member.php.

member.php

  1. <?php   
  2. session_start();  
  3. if(!isset($_SESSION["sess_user"])){  
  4.     header("location:login.php");  
  5. } else {  
  6. ?>  
  7. <!doctype html>  
  8. <html>  
  9. <head>  
  10. <title>Welcome</title>  
  11.     <style>   
  12.         body{  
  13.               
  14.     margin-top: 100px;  
  15.     margin-bottom: 100px;  
  16.     margin-right: 150px;  
  17.     margin-left: 80px;  
  18.     background-color: azure ;  
  19.     color: palevioletred;  
  20.     font-family: verdana;  
  21.     font-size: 100%  
  22.       
  23.         }  
  24.             h2 {  
  25.     color: indigo;  
  26.     font-family: verdana;  
  27.     font-size: 100%;  
  28. }  
  29.         h1 {  
  30.     color: indigo;  
  31.     font-family: verdana;  
  32.     font-size: 100%;  
  33. }  
  34.               
  35.           
  36.     </style>  
  37. </head>  
  38. <body>  
  39.     <center><h1>CREATE REGISTRATION AND LOGIN FORM USING PHP AND MYSQL</h1></center>  
  40.       
  41. <h2>Welcome, <?=$_SESSION['sess_user'];?>! <a href="logout.php">Logout</a></h2>  
  42. <p>  
  43. WE DO IT. SUCCESSFULLY CREATED REGISTRATION AND LOGIN FORM USING PHP AND MYSQL  
  44. </p>  
  45. </body>  
  46. </html>  
  47. <?php  
  48. }  
  49. ?>  

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Now, you need to click the logout.

Output

Now, check the database to check, whether our data was stored or not.

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Here, we have successfully created a login form validation. Using PHP and WAMP/XAMPP, and we created and executed it. I will continue my next article to give you an in-depth knowledge about XAMPP, FilZilla and GitHub lessons. 

Reference article

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/install-and-configure-xampp-server-with-data-insert-into-database2/

Source code

https://github.com/GaneshanNT/Registration-and-login-validation-form

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