Creating a login system in PHP

Question

Can someone please help me? My username is Blimeo and my password is \"password\" but when I put my credentials in, it says \"Access denied\" like I told it to. I am 100% su

Answer 1

UPDATE, 2016

Please only use existing login systems, which are provided out-of-the-box in nearly every PHP framework! There's absolutly no reason to write this by yourself, as user authentication is a big topic and it will take months (years) to write a serious, stable and modern login solution.

ORIGINAL TEXT, FROM 2012:

As login systems are a security issue and EVERYBODY makes the same mistakes over and over again, i can clearly say:

Take a professional script and work through the code to understand whats happening, what hashing and salting is and what problems session can have.

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Here are three projects that might be what you need:

https://github.com/panique/php-login-one-file

https://github.com/panique/php-login-minimal

https://github.com/panique/huge