Auto Login Feature Implementation with PHP

How to securely store login credentials and auto login where applicable!

Firstly, its very bad idea to save the username and password in cookie.

A simple alternate method of storing the credientials would be:
1) Create a new text field in the authentication table which will store MD5 hash. Call it session_key or something similar.

2) When you want to store the login credentials, on submit of the login page, the script should do the following.

• Validate the username and password
• If it is a good username and password pair, check for the saveLogin variable
• If the saveLogin variable is set, generate an md5 and store that in the database. Also store that md5 in a cookie. Be sure the database table has a cookie-expires field as well.
• Build the session data that you need.
• Redirect to Dashboard

3) On your Dashboard page, you should do the following:

• Check to see if the session still exists. If so, then render the page.
• If the session does not exist, check for the cookie.
• If the cookie exists, look up that session id in the database and be sure it hasn't expired. then build the session and render the page.

This should make your app a bit more secure. It may not be the best way of coding, but the concepts should give you an idea of how to make a fairly secure login page.

Installing PHP with IIS In windows 8 and windows 2012

The easiest and quickest way to install PHP with iis is by using Microsoft Web Platform Installer!

Browse at http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/phponwindows.aspx and install microsoft web platform installer

Once downloaded, look for Products tab which is at top just next to SPOTLIGHT

once in product, search for PHP and press enter  using the search field on top right corner

Add PHP 5.3 or requied version. You may also add mysql and iis rewrite modules using similar steps

thats it! i will do all the mappings and other required settings itself and you can start developing and deploying PHP Sites