Mini-project 5: User login

Instructions

The point of this project is to practice authenticating a user. You should do one of the following:

• use your own authentication method, where you store a user's password in a database (MySQL, PostgresQL, or MongoDB)
  • be sure to use salted hashing; see the PHP password hashing functions
• use oAuth to give users a "Log in with..." option (we're only using oAuth for authentication, not authorization to access a users' data on that account); you can use any popular website that supports oAuth, such as these:
  • Google
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

You should create at least one file (if you need more, that's fine), mp5.php. This should take care of the following:

• displaying the sign in fields and buttons if the user is not logged in
• displaying sign out buttons if the user is logged in
• process requests to log in or out
• use cookies to keep track of whether a user is logged in

Submission

Your file should be located on Joust in the directory ~/public_html/csc401/mp5/, in addition to being uploaded to Canvas. The rubric can be found here. The Canvas submission page is here.