Authentication allows various resources to be published on the Internet but viewable only by those who can present the appropriate credentials. With the information presented in this tutorial you should be able to construct your own authentication system.
You might even want to organize your code in a set of functions or a class; the code can be written to be rather self-sufficient and then inserted in the top of each resource with include or require.
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