PHP 8 Solutions: Dynamic Web Design and Development Made Easy

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022

D. PowersPHP 8 Solutionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7141-4_19

19. Authenticating Users with a Database

David Powers¹  

(1)

London, UK

 

Chapter 11 showed you the principles of user authentication and sessions to password-protect parts of your web site, but the login scripts all relied on usernames and passwords stored in a CSV file. Keeping user details in a database is both more secure and more efficient. Instead of just storing a list of usernames and passwords, a database can store other details, such as first name, family name, email address, and so on. Databases also give you the option of using either hashing (one-way and irreversible) or encryption ...