Recently, a client of mine wanted to have an authentication system for their existing Web Application. They are currently using MongoDB as their Database and just wanted to implement a simple Login, Register and Account page for their customers.

I did not have much experience working with MongoDB before I accepted the project  so I struggled a little bit figuring out a way to make an authentication work with MongoDB, but soon after – I realized that the focus of the logic should be on PHP itself, not MongoDB. So then I started coding until I finally finished a simple session based authentication.

Instead of pasting the entire code in this page, I decided to put the project on Github.

Features

• Registration page
  • Validations
  • Easy to scale fields.
  • Login and redirects on success
• Login Page
  • Validations
  • Redirects on succes
• Account Page
  • It simply displays the information of the user.
• Logout

Helpers

• is_user_logged_in();
  • Returns true if the user is logged in, otherwise it returns false.
• current_user();
  • Returns an object containing data of the currently logged in user.

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