PHP secure login/registration tutorial?

I am new to coding and have no clue about sessions cookies or anything needed to create a way for people to securely register and login to a site.

The site i have planned i expect (hope) to be used by my entire community so i really need to get it right without any vunerabilities.

Can anyone suggest any good resources or tutorials or anything that might help me?

hey there. weve never spoken before, there is a wide varity of resources to help you in this post:

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=104161

good luck if you need any more help, im sure myself and others might be able to help you :)

hey there. weve never spoken before, there is a wide varity of resources to help you in this post:

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=104161

good luck if you need any more help, im sure myself and others might be able to help you :)

Thankyou for the link i do already have some of those sites bookmarked and ill be sure to check out the rest of them.

Before your reply i did find this tutorial and i was wandering i you would look it over and tell me if its any good and worth using.

http://phpeasystep.com/phptu/6.html

from the first look i would have said no, this is because untill i read the whole thing down there was nothing to encrypt passwords, however, when i got near the bottom, it became apparent that there is a link to another tutorial that helps to encrypt passwords.

In my opinion I would use the password hashing (as i believe is the right term) called "SHA1" unless someone else would like to step in and tell you a better alternitive.

That tutorial is a basic, it does cover protecting against some form of SQL injections, however i would also suggest using this Captcha from the link below if you are going to use that, and as i just learnt how to impiment Captcha I would either use googles one called ReCaptcha, or use Sercurimage, both links are below:

Sercurimage (http://www.phpcaptcha.org)

Googles ReCaptcha service (http://www.google.com/recaptcha)