Part 3: Create your own Login System using PHP and MySql

3. Creating the Database and setting-up Tables

For this part, you will need to access your MySQL database, either using phpMyAdmin or your preferred MySQL database management application.

Follow the below instructions if you’re using phpMyAdmin.

• Navigate to: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
• Click the Databases tab at the top
• Under Create database, enter phplogin in the text box
• Select utf8_general_ci as the collation
• Click Create

You can use your own database name, but for this tutorial, we’ll use phplogin.

What we need now is an accounts table as this will store all the accounts (usernames, passwords, emails, etc) that are registered with the system.

Click the database on the left side panel (phplogin) and execute the following SQL statement:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `accounts` (
	`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  	`username` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  	`password` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  	`email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=2 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

INSERT INTO `accounts` (`id`, `username`, `password`, `email`) VALUES (1, 'test', '$2y$10$SfhYIDtn.iOuCW7zfoFLuuZHX6lja4lF4XA4JqNmpiH/.P3zB8JCa', 'test@test.com');

On phpMyAdmin this should look like:

The above SQL statement code will create the accounts table with the columns id, username, password, and email.

The SQL statement will insert a test account with the username: test, and the password: test. The test account will be used for testing purposes to ensure our login system is functioning correctly.