Overview
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Learn how to store persistent PHP session data in a SQL server and create an auto-login system that recognizes returning users.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Sessions in Google Chrome
- How PHP sessions work
- Configuring session
- Changing session defaults
- Inspecting how session data is stored
- Implementing persistent sessions
- Creating a database and user account in MySQL
- Defining tables to store session data
- Connecting to the database
- Implementing the PHP SessionHandlerInterface
- Opening a session and reading stored data
- Writing session data
- Closing the session and garbage collection
- Destroying the session
- Setting the session handler
- How the autologin system works
- Using a trait to define common properties
- Extending the MysqlSessionHandler class
- Creating a persistent login
- Checking a returning visitor's credentials
- Logging out
- Generating a unique key when registering users
- Using a PSR-4 class autoloader
- Authenticating the user
- Revalidating credentials for sensitive areas
- Logging out selectively
- Final thoughts
