How to Make a Registration Form in PHP - A Simple Step-by-Step Guide
How to Make a Simple Registration Form in php
How to Make a Simple Registration Form in php
Create the database for the registration form
Make the simple registration form in HTML/CSS
Connect to the MySQL database using php
Process the registration form input
Add new user accounts to the databas
Step 1: Create the database for the registration form
Often times, the first step of making a website is to create the database. And sure, you will likely need to make changes to your database later. But setting up your database first, will give you a great starting point
Database fields for our php membership system
Every database needs a name, and since I like to keep life simple, let’s call our database “person“.
Since we are making a simple registration form, we are only going to need 7 fields in our database. This way we get enough basic functionality right away. But still can add extra features like a password reset form.
id – this is going to be a unique identifier for each user. We need to make sure the id field is an integer and set to auto increment with a primary key. This is a must!!! When progress to more complex member systems, using the user’s account id makes it super simple to link database records together.
first_name– this should be self explanatory. I set mine to a 255 character varchar. Very rarely will user’s want a username longer than 10-15 characters, so 50 should take care of it. But this will also give you the ability to set your desired username length in your php code.
midle_name– the user’s email address. Set it it a 255 character varchar.
last_name– the user’s email address. Set it it a 255 character varchar..
phone– this will store a time() value of when the user created their account.
email– we can track the last time the user logged in by updating this record here. Again will be from the time() function.
phone– track the account activation status. We can check this value to see if the user has activated their account or not, and based on that let them login or give them a notice to activate their account.