title: Creating a session user login php
body: <p>I'm stuck on how to create a session for a user who logs in. I got the part of checking to make sure the log in information corresponds with the database information, but is stuck on how to take the email address and store into a session. Here is my php code below.         </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php include '../View/header.php';
  session_start();
  require('../model/database.php');
  $email = $_POST['username'];
  $password = $_POST['password'];
  $sql = "SELECT emailAddress FROM customers WHERE emailAddress ='$email' AND password = '$password'";
  $result = mysql_query($sql, $db);
  
  if (!$result) {
      echo "DB Error, could not query the database\n";
      echo 'MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error();
      exit;
  }
  
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
      echo $row['emailAddress'];
  }
  
  mysql_free_result($result);
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>