user management system

Hi, I am an intermediate PHP user, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend, or donate a tutorial to me that will explain how to create a user database. I need to know how to create new accounts, login users, logout users, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Try URL for user authentication

Thanks a lot! One more thing though... how about a tut explaining how to create a simple forum? lol thanks.

Basically for a user management system you will need 3 required fields: uid, username, password. UID would be a int set to auto-increment & primary. You can also add things like email, website, etc... but thats all up to you and what the system will be used for.

You would need a page that creates users by getting what the user wants for a username & password, checking if it already exists, then inserting it into the table.

You also need a user authentication system, I believeDevShed has a good tutorial on creating one and protecting pages. It's not really that hard to do once you get an understanding on inserting, updating, deleting, and checking db info.

If you need any help, just post on the forums and we'll try to help you!