Building an E-Commerce Site Part 2: Managing Users with Sessions - Step 5: User Scripts (
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In the users directory, we keep a bunch of scripts to let users manage
themselves (to some extent):
users/signup.php
This script lets a user signup for an account. Signing up for an account is a
straight forward process. The user fills in their information, and selects a
username and password. Note that in our validation function, we check to see
that the user fills in all the required fields, and also that the username and
email addresses do not already exist. If they do, the user will have to specify
different ones.
users/forgot_password.php
The forgot password script asks the user for their email address and then
looks up their user record in the database. If a user record is found, the
user's password gets reset to some random word and then their new password
address gets sent to their email address. This is why it is important that there
are no duplicate email addresses on the
system.
users/change_password.php
A simple script to let the user change their
password.
users/change_password.php
A simple script to let the user change their settings. Note, we can't have
the user changing their username (that's a big no-no!), firstname, or
lastname.
