Session Management - Initialize sessions and store retrieved database results.
Basic Validation - Validating form data that is sent to the server using GET and POST requests (username, password, email, etc.).
Prepared SQL Queries - How to properly prepare SQL queries to prevent SQL injection and therefore prevent your database from being exposed.
Form Design - Design a login form with HTML5 and CSS3.
It's not necessary to install all the software separately with XAMPP.ġ.2.
It includes PHP, MySQL, Apache, phpMyAdmin, and more.
XAMPP is a cross-platform web server package that includes the essentials for back-end developers.
If you haven't got a local web server set-up, I recommend you download and install XAMPP.
We need to set up our web server environment and ensure we have the required extensions enabled. There are a few steps we need to take before we create our secure login system.