Difference between revisions of "PHP-and-MySQL/C4/User-Registration-Part-1/English-timed"

|Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on how to create a user registration form and how to register a user into mysql database.

|One suggestion before starting this tutorial is that you watch my "User login" tutorials first. I've posted a link to it.

|I would suggest that you do so before going through these tutorials. The reason I have created "User login" before "User registration" is because I find it a lot easier to do the "User login" process before doing the "Registration" process.

|Once you've got the "login" process right and you've got the fields in the database you can start our registration process.  

|I just find it a lot more easier to this way, as you know what you're registering in to your data base.

|To start with, in the first part we will create our form and check for the existence of my login information.

|This here is my login session and all my fields but here I will create a new file.

|Just add some tags first.  

|I will create this inside my login session folder with the "index dot php" which is the main page you saw.

|Log in, log out and the member page if users are logged in and I will save this as "register dot php".

|I am creating a user registration form so that the user can register before they decide to login.

|I have created my "register dot php" and I am also going to open my index file. I will create a link underneath the form.

|Following from the last tutorial where we could login, I will just put a link to a page that you can register before you do this.

|Before we were just typing data into our database.  If I open up a new window, I will go across to "php my admin".  

|And this is the database that will be used called "php login" and this is my "users" table.  

|You can see I have added an extra field called "name" and I will add another field called "date".

|At the end of the table that's going to be called "date" and it will be in date format.  So where is it?  Um.... Here it is.

|Before you get confused about what the date will be, it will be the current date when the users registered and we go there and save that.

|So from the last tutorial on the "User login" we just have id, username and password. Now I have added a name so its going to be the user name and we've added date, the date when he registered.

|Just browse in here. We have got a couple of values here already.  

|Now I'll briefly explain this html code which tells you how to create this page and we will have a form first of all.  

|This is going to be a self submitting form. It's going to submit back to "register dot php".  

|And we are going to create a table and inside this we will have a row here.

|Then we have two columns, so two td blocks here and the 1st one will have, say your fullname

|I leave it up to you.  Just to speed up I will do it this way.

|In our second column here, I will put my input type as "text" and my name equals "fullname".  

|So you can see at the moment, let me go back to my original page, click on register.

|You can see, this is one column here, split down here. This is another column with the input box in.

|And I will also go up here and inside the php code, I will echo out a header.  I will explain a bit later why I have done this.

|So we got that.  At the moment we have this. To speed up, I will just copy and paste this down.

|So make sure you choose from "t r" till "end t r".

|I will paste it down and then I will say "Choose a username" and obviously I will change this to "username".

|I will paste that again and say "Choose a password".  This text is just to secure in case any one's looking over our users' shoulder or any screen capture software being used to infiltrate this computer.

|And the next one down here I will just copy and paste this here to say "Repeat your password".  

|We can't say "password" again so I will call this "repeat password".

|We will use this to compare the passwords once they have been submitted as a safety measure in case the user made any mistakes.

|And we don't need any other field. That is the last one.  

|Okay so this is our form created. Lets go back and refresh.  

|We need a submit button also.  

|Underneath our table, I will create a paragraph break.

|And my input type here is going to be "submit"; my name is going to be "submit".  

|And we have to check the existence and the value will just be "register".

|Lets refresh. There we are, you can see that the password fields have been blanked out.

|Also we have a fullname and username there for the users to type their values.

|Okay that's about it.  I will stop the tutorial here.  

|If you are following this step by step, make sure you have got your form written out and try out another design if you wish.  

|I wish I had more time to do it. So go ahead and create your form as you want.

|Do anything you want to it.  Change these labels.

|Just make sure you got your boxes and your register.  

|In the next part we will talk about checking that the user has typed each one of these fields in.

|We will compare the passwords to see if they match. I mean if I say there are two passwords and these don't match as they differ in character length, then the user can't register as they might have made a mistake.

|We will also encrypt our passwords and remove any dangerous or any pretentiously dangerous html tags from these forms. So we'll have some bit of security to our registration form.  

|So I see in the next part. Thanks for watching. This is Sidhartha dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project.