This article demostrates an easy way to maintain sessions and security (or authorization) in PHP. It does NOT use the PHP built in session support. The following method will allow you to easily secure any PHP page by simply including a file at the top of every page. In this tutorial you will: a) Create your database structure; b) Create a login page; c) Create your security check include file; d) Secure your site. Update: I fixed a couple of bugs in the article. Thanks for the feedback Update to the update: I have fixed the article text to include the code that was missing due to the previous update.