🔐 Simple PHP Authentication System

A simple authentication system built with core PHP (no framework), demonstrating user registration, login, logout and session-based authentication.

📌 Features

• User Registration
• User Login
• User Logout
• Password hashing
• Session-based authentication
• Server-side validation
• Proper error handling
• Clean folder structure

🛠️ Technologies Used

• PHP (Core PHP)
• MySQL
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Apache (XAMPP)

⚙️ Configuration & Setup

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/hashmat-mowahidi/php-auth.git
cd php-auth

2️⃣ Server Requirements

• XAMPP installed
• Apache running
• MySQL running

3️⃣ Database Configuration

Edit the database configuration file:

config/db.php:

<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$dbname = 'user_auth';
$dbusername = 'root';
$dbpassword = '';

📌 Important:

• You do NOT need to manually create the database
• The database and required tables are created automatically when index.php is run for the first time

4️⃣ Run the Project

1. Move the project folder to:

xampp/htdocs/

2. Open your browser and visit:

http://localhost/php-auth/index.php