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georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsSimple PHP registration form with database
Can you help me, how to create simple registration form with php and mysql? Or give me link of the video. Thanks
7 Answers
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherGeorge;
I did a quick Google search for "PHP registration form" and got several good options. Unfortunately, I don't recall seeing any registration form lessons in PHP here on Treehouse. There are a few topics of PHP forms, but mostly related to Contact Us type of forms.
Ken
georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsThanks Ken :)
georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsKen can you help me to solve this problem?
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherGeorge;
What type of registration are you wanting? Registration for a secured site, i.e. log-in to gain access or registration for information distribution, i.e. register for an email list?
Ken
georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsRegistration for secured site.
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherGeorge;
Creating registration for a secured site is certainly doable from a coding standpoint. Like I mentioned earlier, I have not seen a PHP implementation tutorial here on Treehouse. There are several several things your site should work to attempt to prevent including:
- SQL Injections
- Session Hijacking
- Network Eavesdropping
- Cross Site Scripting
- Brute Force Attacks
The basic steps for creating your registration form, database, etc. are:
- Configure Your Server
- Configure the MySQL Database
- Create Database Connection Page
- Create the PHP Functions
- Create Processing Pages
- Create Javascript Files
- Create HTML Pages
- Protecting Pages
Probably too much for a forum discussion though.
Ken
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherHave you thought about using an open source CMS/e-commerce/blog site for your project? Many of them have site security either built-in or have fairly easy to setup site security.
georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsI'm trying to write my own CMS :)
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherAh. Well that is quite the ambitious project then. Probably need to take the major discussion(s) of the project off the forum. Is the registration your last piece of the puzzle?
Ken
georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsThanks for advice
georgekiknadze
Courses Plus Student 6,307 PointsNo actually it's first step. But I think, I should go through these all courses to start my project.
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherGeorge;
If you are not familiar with PHP/MySQL I would strongly suggest you work your way through the PHP Development Track prior to launching into building your own CMS. After that taking a look at Laravel Basics would be a great start at learning what a PHP framework can do.
If I were to sit down and write a CMS project I would definitely look at using a framework, such as Laravel (I'm partial to that one), to build it. It does a lot of the heavy lifting of the MVC model functions. Saves a lot of time while still giving the developer the flexibility to create their own system.
Ken