Chapter 11. Adding Password Protection to Administrative Links
One of the last things you need to add before you can call your blog "web-ready" is to hide the administrative links from users who aren't authorized to view them. In this chapter, you'll learn how to build a system that lets you create administrators and require them to log in with a password before they can create, edit, and delete entries on the blog.
Creating this system requires that you master the following tasks:
Adding an admin table to the simple_blog database
Building a function to place administrators in the admin table
Using sessions to hide controls from unauthorized users
Creating a login form that allows administrators to log in to the blog
Writing code to check submitted ...
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