Question

I would like to setp up a login form that will included in certain pages.

I found many tutorials that talk about it but, how can I add the “admin” account for the first time ?!
In phpmyadmin directly? I can do it but, want it to be encoded with the md5 algorithm.
Does anybody know where can I find a ready login system with the session management and all the other stuff?

Thank you very much,
regards.

Answer 1

In PHPMyAdmin insert the Admin user’s password with md5

INSERT INTO your_user_table (username, password) VALUES ('admin', md5('secret'));

And in your PHP app, use the native md5() function.

Note that md5() is insecure by now and you want to consider sha1 and salting for increased security. See

• https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=salt+security+php