This is a guest post by Karl Agius.
Last week, there was a brief discussion in the comments for "Creating a PHP CMS Part 7" about whether it was preferable to use PHP's functions, or MySQL's built in functions to digest a password. There was no solid answer at that point, so I ran a small test to determine which way worked best.
In today's part of Creating a PHP CMS, we will be creating a simple login system.This login system will be used to restrict access to the administration panel. I will talk about user validation, site security and application of the login system.
Today we will be looking at some administration functions for our CMS, including updating posts, deleting posts and changing the home page.
In the last few posts, we learned how to display information from the database. Today, we will be creating lists of posts for a navigation list, and for the CMS admin.
In part 4 of Creating a PHP CMS, I talk about getting information from a MySQL database and displaying it to the user. I also go over how to set a default home page.