Comments on: A Common PHP/MySQL User Database

By: Get Back to Work! - Habari

Get Back to Work! - Habari — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:16:20 +0000

[...] to reliably code again, without freezing my fingers off, it’s time for me to get back to my Common User Database project, which is really coming together now. I’ve got all the basic interaction stuff down, [...]

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:09:13 +0000

William: Deadlock looks ill-suited to what I’m using, but the evolt system does look better. Thanks for the tip.

By: Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management

Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:29:55 +0000

Import/Export: Email Address as Unique Identifier, Force Multiplier…

People have riffed on email addresses as unique identifiers for some time now. Heck, any good user database, in my mind, uses email addresses as the unique identifier, because they’ll nudge the user to keep the email address up-to-date. Rex Ham…

By: William Sitch

William Sitch — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:39:59 +0000

How about Deadlock?

Deadlock is an open source user authentication/password protection system written in PHP/MySQL and licensed under the GNU GPL. It uses .htpasswd and .htaccess files to protect any web directory. Installation is as easy as running a setup script.

http://www.phpdeadlock.org/

If you don’t need anything so comprehensive, there’s a PHP admin system with login features at:
http://evolt.org/PHP-Login-System-with-Admin-Features

By: will

will — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:51:50 +0000

I recommend adding a date_created field into this table, so it is known when the user joined.
And if you’re using a double-opt-in system, I recommend adding a user_act_key field (or putting this into a separate table associated by user_id since it will be null once the user has verified their email address).
That way whenever the user changes their email address, your system will know to verify it first, and if the account expires, you can pull the record (saving space).