Week 5 Homework

Register.php

1. index/home, register, login, userhome
2. It's essential because when you go to save it, you are saving it as a hash
3. You need the algorithm and the data for the salt to be created from
4. 256
5. Username, and the hashed password
6. The user gets sent to login when completed registration
7. You're still taken to the registration and then login form

Login.php

1. The action for the login page is login.php
2. The msg variable is to display to the user messages needed to be shown from an error or from registration
3. The salt is stored in the first 64 characters of the hash
4. Grab the password from the database, which is the hashed out version, grabbing the first 64 characters of it and using substr to ge the salt. Then sending the salt and password variable into myHash.
5. The password is hashed numerous times as the user wishes, in our case, 100k times
6. You have a valid login attempt if the hashed password from the form matches what we have stored in our database from the specified user.
7. If the login failed, we are given a message that says incorrect login, please try again!

Userhome.php

1. The user gets redirected to the login page if not logged in.
2. The user is shown their favorite and watched movies when logged in.

Logout.php

1. First line creates the session name, second line starts the session, next line destroys it, then we get the cfd, and send the user to the home page.
2. User does not see anything from this page, as it just starts and ends a session, logging the user out.