A Secret Page
Let's see how to create a secret page that would only be accessible to logged-in users.
Perks of logging in
Before we start building the login functionality, let’s give the user a good reason for logging in: a picture of the original elephpant from 2007.
You can copy it from afieldguidetoelephpants.net (or you can download any other picture you like, of course).
Here’s the code for public/secret.php, which should only be accessible to logged-in members:
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><title>Secret</title></head><body><p>Here's something special for users who are logged in:</p><p><img src="/elephpant.jpg" alt="An elephpant"></p></body></html>
Take a look at http://APPLINK/secret.php to see if it looks good:
Note: You don’t actually have to go anywhere and open any URL as we have already set everything up for you. We have used
http://APPLINKjust as a placeholder. The URL link on which the application will be available after running the code is located below the Run button of all the coding areas given in a lesson.
Redirecting to the login page
We want to ensure that only authenticated users can see the elephpant.
Whenever an anonymous user requests /secret.php, they should be ...