How to create login and logout using session in PHP and MySQLi
Now, we are going to perform the login and logout using session in PHP and MySQLi In order to perform, we need three files with .php extension.
1. login.php
2. home.php
3. logout.php
Here, we will not be doing registration for the users because I have covered this earlier. For the registration part, you can check How to insert HTML form data in MySQL database using PHP
Put these three files in a folder name session.
Before getting started with login and logout operation, we will take a look briefly about the session.
Basic overview of the session in PHP | What is the session in PHP
A session is just a time duration of a user for the activities he performs on the web. For eg:-when a user open Facebook and log in to view his Facebook profile and after completing the activities he logout. The time between login and log out is called a session.
How to use session in PHP
Session is used with the global variable $_SESSION[”]. We can start the session with the help of session_start() function and we can destroy the session with the help of session_unset() function.
Here, we will use a table named ‘users’
DDL information of the table:-
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`username` varchar(225) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`phone_no` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`email` varchar(225) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`password` varchar(225) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)
ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
In this tutorial, we will assume that we already have a username and password because the registration part of the user has already been done. On the other hand, you can also enter a username and password directly in the table into the database just for testing purposes.
Now, if the login details are correct then we will redirect to the home page with the welcome message otherwise we will redirect to the login page again showing the invalid login details.
Required files are mentioned below:-
Login.php:-
<?php
include '../connect.php';
session_start();
if(isset($_POST['login'])){
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
//check login details
$stmt = $con->prepare("select * from users where username = '$username' and password = '$password'");
$stmt->execute();
//echo $stmt->rowCount();
//exit();
if($stmt->rowCount()>0){
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
header("location: home.php");
$_SESSION['success'] = "You are logged in";
}
else{
header("location: login.php");
$_SESSION['error'] = "<div class='alert alert-danger' role='alert'>Oh snap! Invalid login details.</div>";
}
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>session example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../bootstrap.css" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- Optional theme -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../bootstrap-theme.css" crossorigin="anonymous">
<style>
.container{
width:50%;
height:30%;
padding:20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h3 align="center"><u>Login Form</u></h3>
<br/><br/><br/><br/>
<?php if(isset($_SESSION['error'])){ echo $_SESSION['error']; }?>
<form action="" method="post" class="form-horizontal">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="control-label col-sm-2" for="email">Username*:</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="username" placeholder="Please enter the Username">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label class="control-label col-sm-2" for="phone">Password*:</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="password" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="Please enter the password">
</div>
</div>
<br/><br/>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-info btn-block" name="login">Submit</button>
</form>
</div>
<script src="../jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="../bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Home.php:-
<?php
session_start();
include '../connect.php';
if($_SESSION['username']==''){
header("location: login.php");
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>ajax example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../bootstrap.css" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- Optional theme -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../bootstrap-theme.css" crossorigin="anonymous">
<style>
.container{
width:50%;
height:30%;
padding:20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
<div class="container-fluid">
<!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display -->
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1" aria-expanded="false">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a>
</div>
<!-- Collect the nav links, forms, and other content for toggling -->
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active"><a href="#">Link <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#">About US</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact US</a></li>
</ul>
<form class="navbar-form navbar-left">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<a href="logout.php" class="btn btn-danger">Logout</a>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<br/><br/><br/><br/>
<h1 align="center"><?php echo $_SESSION['success']; ?></h1>
<h2 align="center">Welcome to the home page <?php echo $_SESSION['username'];?></h2>
<script src="../jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="../bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Logout.php:-
<?php
include '../connect.php';
session_start();
//destroy the session
session_unset();
//redirect to login page
header("location: login.php");
?>
NOTE*
Download the bootstrap css and js files from google and include the path of the files in the href attribute of link tag and src attribute of the script tag respectively.
CONCLUSION:- I hope this article will help you to perform the logg in and logg out using session in PHP and MySQLi. If you have any doubt then please leave your comment below.
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