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In this in depth “screencast of the week,” I’ll take you through the process of building an authentication system with CodeIgniter. Need to restrict access to certain parts of your website to only those who’ve logged in? This tutorial will teach you how!

You’ll Learn About:

• The form helper
• The form validation library
• Sessions
• CodeIgniter best practices
• Authentication
• Active record
• Working with MySQL databases

Part 1

Part 2

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