I've finally decided to start using prepared statements. Though, i am 50/50 on whats correct and not. I'm trying to make a login page with the prepared statements. Though, it seems like it doesn't retrieve any session value except the username $_SESSION
Here's my code:
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = md5($_POST['password']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE BINARY username=? AND BINARY password=?";
if($stmt = $db->prepare($sql)){
$stmt->bind_param("ss",$username,$password);
$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->get_result();
$num_rows = $result->num_rows;
if($num_rows >= 1){
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = $username;
$_SESSION['country'] = $num_rows['country'];
$_SESSION['email'] = $num_rows['email'];
$_SESSION['avatar'] = $num_rows['u_avatar'];
$_SESSION['is_gm'] = $num_rows['is_gm'];
$_SESSION['user_lvl'] = $num_rows['user_lvl'];
$_SESSION['totalposts'] = $num_rows['post_total'];
$_SESSION['totalcoins'] = $num_rows['coins_total'];
$_SESSION['totalvotes'] = $num_rows['vote_total'];
$_SESSION['secquest'] = $num_rows['sec_quest'];
$_SESSION['secanswer'] = $num_rows['sec_answer'];
$_SESSION['join_date'] = $num_rows['join_date'];
header("Location: /index.php");
exit();
} else {
echo "<p class='error_msg'>No accounts could be found with the given credentials.</p>";
}
$stmt->free_result();
$stmt->close();
$db->close();
}