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Simple Login Form in PHP and MySQL

In this tutorial, you will get free source code to create a simple login form in PHP and MySQL. It is developed with complete validation. It will be very useful to develop the best login system. So, you can easily integrate it into your projects.

The login form is an integral part of a web application. It is used to access individual information from the websites. Many popular websites Such as Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter & more have login features. Even you can use it to create an admin login panel for managing the front-end content dynamically.

How to create a Simple Login Form Using PHP

The login form is created with two required fields like email & password. These fields have a backend validation to accept only valid& registered email address & password

Features –

Using PHP, It can send login data through the POST method.
Using MySQL, It can check registered users.
Login form does not allow invalid data and protects from the hacking
Login can convert illegal user input into legal input data.
You can’t get into the dashboard until you will not log in with valid credentials.
You can log out after login.

Before creating a login form in your project, you must have to create a signup/registration form. Because users can’t log in without signup/ register. If you don’t know to create a registration form, then there is no need to worry, you can also learn it on this website by clicking the following link.

Folder Structure

You should create the following folder structure. Otherwise, you can use the given login script directly in your project.

login-system/
    |__database.php
    |__login-form.php
    |__login-script.php
    |__dashboard.php
    |__logout.php
    |__style.css

1. Connect PHP login Script to MySQL Database

First of all, write the following MySQL database connection script to connect PHP login System with Database.

File Name – database.php

<?php

$hostname = “localhost”; // enter your hostname

$username = “root”; // enter your table username

$password = “”; // enter your password

$databasename = “codingstatus.com“; // enter your database

// Create connection

$conn = new mysqli($hostname, $username, $password,$databasename);

// Check connection

if ($conn->connect_error) {

die(“Unable to Connect database: “ . $conn->connect_error);

}

2. Create Login Form Using HTML

Now, configure the following steps to create a login form using HTML

Include login-script.php using the following script. Don’t worry it will explain it in the next step.
Include external style.css
Also, include the following bootstrap4 libraries to create a responsive login form.
Write the HTML code to create a login form

File Name – login-form.php

<?php

include(‘login-script.php’);

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>PHP Login Form</title>

<!–bootstrap4 library linked–>

</head>

<body>

</div>

<!–====registration form====–>

<h4 class=“text-center”>PHP Login Form</h4>

<form action=“<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER[“PHP_SELF“]);?>” method=“post”>

<!--// Email//–>

<label for=“email”>Email:</label>

<?php if($emailErr!=1){ echo $emailErr; } ?>

</p>

</div>

<!--//Password//–>

<label for=“pwd”>Password:</label>

<?php if($passErr!=1){ echo $passErr; } ?>

</p>

</div>

<button type=“submit” class=“btn btn-danger” value=“login” name=“register”>Login</button>

</form>

</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

3. Design Login Form Using CSS

Use the following custom CSS code to design the login form

File Name – style.css

.registration-form{

background: #f7f7f7;

padding: 20px;

border: 1px solid orange;

margin: 50px 0px;

}

.err-msg{

color:red;

}

.registration-form form{

border: 1px solid #e8e8e8;

padding: 10px;

background: #f3f3f3;

}

4. Create a Login Script Using PHP and MySQL

Before writing a login script, you should understand the following points.

Include database connection file using require_once('database.php').
Assign a connection variable $conn to a new variable $db.
Check registration data are set using isset($_POST['submit']), if these are set then validate email & password using legal_input() function.
If both email & password are validated successfully, call a custom function login() to process to login by checking valid credentials
If given credentials are already registered, it will redirect to the dashboard page.

File Name – login-script.php

<?php

require(‘database.php’);

$db= $conn; // assign your connection varibale

// by default, error messages are empty

$login=$emailErr=$passErr=”;

extract($_POST);

if(isset($_POST[‘submit’]))

{

//input fields are Validated with regular expression

$validName=“/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/”;

$validEmail=”/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/”;

//Email Address Validation

if(empty($email)){

$emailErr=“Email is Required”;

}

else if (!preg_match($validEmail,$email)) {

$emailErr=“Invalid Email Address”;

}

else{

$emailErr=true;

}

// password validation

if(empty($password)){

$passErr=“Password is Required”;

}

else{

$passErr=true;

}

// check all fields are valid or not

if( $emailErr==1 && $passErr==1)

{

//legal input values

$email= legal_input($email);

$password= legal_input(md5($password));

// call login function

$login=login($email,$password);

}

// convert illegal input value to ligal value formate

function legal_input($value) {

$value = trim($value);

$value = stripslashes($value);

$value = htmlspecialchars($value);

return $value;

}

// function to insert user data into database table

function login($email,$password){

global $db;

// checking valid email

$sql=“SELECT email FROM users WHERE email= ?”;

$query = $db->prepare($sql);

$query->bind_param(‘s’,$email);

$query->execute();

$exec=$query->get_result();

if($exec)

{

if($exec->num_rows>0){

// checking email and password

$loginSql=“SELECT email, password FROM users WHERE email=? AND password=?”;

$loginQuery = $db->prepare($loginSql);

$loginQuery->bind_param(‘ss’,$email, $password);

$loginQuery->execute();

$execQuery=$loginQuery->get_result();

if($execQuery)

{

if($execQuery->num_rows>0){

session_start();

$_SESSION[’email’]=$email;

header(“location:dashboard.php”);

}else{

return “Your Password is wrong”;

}

}else{

return $db->error;

}

else

{

return $email.” is not registered”;

}

}else{

return $db->error;

}

5. Create Dashboard Using HTML and PHP

To create a dashboard, you have to do the following things –
Start session using session_start()
Assign session login email $_SESSION['email'] to a new variable $email_address
If the session login email is empty, it will redirect to the login form page. means that you can’t directly open the dashboard page without login.

File Name – dashboard.php

<?php

session_start();

$email_address= $_SESSION[’email’];

if(empty($email_address))

{

header(“location:login.php”);

}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>Login Dashboard</title>

<!–custom style–>

margin:0px;

padding:0px;

}

.header{

background: #ff8100;

}

.header h1{

text-align: center;

color: white;

margin: 0px;

padding: 25px 0px;

font-size: 40px;

}

.user-box{

text-align: center;

}

.user-detail{

width: 30%;

min-height: 100px;

display: inline-block;

background: #e8e8e8;

margin: 50px;

padding: 10px;

}

.user-detail p{

font-size:25px;

}

.user-detail h3{

font-size: 30px;

line-height: 100px;

color: #ff8100;

}

.header a{

float: right;

position: relative;

right: 60px;

top: 10px;

background: white;

text-decoration: none;

padding: 5px 20px;

font-size: 25px;

color: black;

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Welcome to Dashboard <a href=“logout.php”>Logout</a></h1>

</div>

<p>Your Email Address</p>

<h3>

<?php

echo $email_address;

</h3>

</div>

</body>

</html>

6. Create Logout Script Using PHP

You can quickly log out by writing the following few lines of PHP code.

First of all, start the session using session_start()
Destroy session using session_destroy()
Redirect to the login page after logout.

File Name – logout.php

<?php

session_start();

session_destroy();

header(“location:login.php”);

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