PHP user login system on HTML site

[tyoung560]

Hi all, first post here so please bear with me. I chose to try and reach out to the internet community for help on this one because it is over my head.

 

I currently have a bootstrap based HTMl website. I would like to add a login system so my employees can access restricted pages in order to download company matierals. I have the html and css for a login popup already created but I have no idea what to do for the php backend to make it function. I understand that I need to point it to a mySQL database along with various php code. Idealy, I want to create usernames for the employees to keep things simple and consistent. I don't neccesairly need an admin panel because I can simply hard code the material download links into the restricted page.

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

here is a link to my site - www.youngexplosives.com

[TOA]

The basics:

Sign up: load users info into db

Login: check login credentials against said db. Set a $_SESSION variable or cookie

To restrict a page: Check said $_SESSION variable or cookie

 

You are going to have to learn some php here; or pay someone to do it for you..there's a freelance section if your interested in that option.

[davidannis]

Why not just use htaccess and put all of the restricted materials into a protected directory?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html

[tyoung560]

Why not just use htaccess and put all of the restricted materials into a protected directory?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html

 

I've read up on that but I do not host my website. I use Network Solutions as a host. I'm not sure I can access what you suggested.

 

Anyways, here's an update...

 

I've successfully added a simple login. It can be accessed by going to www.yectest.com/login.php

 

Now what I would like to do is integrate that code into the HTML and CSS I already have located at http://www.youngexplosives.com under the "Login" link in the top right corner.

[tyoung560]

Well I'm proud of myself I've integrated the php with the html and css.

 

Now my only question is...how do I save a users session so he/she can navigate through the website while still being logged in and still have access to the resrticted page?

[tyoung560]

ok, well i came up with a real hacked up way of saving a user session....it works but it isnt pretty! haha.

 

i duplicated each page and resaved as example.php

 

now i have a set of html pages that do not require a user validation and a set of php pages that do require validation. now after login, the user is navigating through all of the .php pages.

 

http://www.yectest.com

[davidannis]

Network Solutions (and almost every other hosting provider) support htaccess. You can maintain it through their control panel or by uploading your own .htaccess file to a directory, just don't mix the two methods because changes made in one won't be reflected in the other.

http://www.networksolutions.com/support/does-network-solutions-support-htaccess-files/