PHP and MySQL®: Create-Modify-Reuse

1.12. Summary

Voilà! You now have a basic user-registration framework to extend anyway you like. Perhaps you want to collect more information from your users, such as their cell phone numbers for SMS messaging, mailing addresses, or even internet messenger screen names.

You've also learned how to establish a well-organized directory structure for your applications and seen some of the benefits of writing reusable code. The directory layout and many of the support files will be used throughout the rest of this book.

In the next chapter you'll build upon what you've written so far and program a basic community bulletin board, more commonly known as a forum.