title: Display username once user has logged in
body: <p>Hello i am try to display the username after they log in.</p>
  
  <p>here is my code</p>
  
  <p>This is the page i would like to show it.
  index.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  require_once 'classes/Membership.php';
  $membership = New Membership();
  
  $membership-&gt;confirm_Member();
  
  
  ?&gt;
  
  
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Home Page&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;link href="css/me.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div id="top"&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div id="top-register"&gt;
  &lt;?
  $_SESSION['username']
  ?&gt;
  &lt;a href="login.php?status=loggedout"&gt;
  Log Out &lt;/a&gt; 
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div id="top-login"&gt;
  &lt;a href="index.php"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  &lt;div id="line"&gt;
  &lt;div id="banner-text"&gt;
  Testing
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div id="banner"&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  &lt;center&gt;
  &lt;div id="plan"&gt; 
  &lt;div id="plan-innder"&gt;
  &lt;a href="index.php"&gt;&lt;img src="images/plan/starter.png" alt="Starter" width="250" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;a href="index.php"&gt;&lt;img src="images/plan/regular.png" alt="Regular" width="250" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;a href="index.php"&gt;&lt;img src="images/plan/advanced.png" alt="Advanced" width="250" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
      enter code here
  
  &lt;/center&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The workings 
  membership.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  require 'Mysql.php';
  
  class Membership {
  
      function validate_user($un, $pwd) {
          $mysql = New Mysql();
          $ensure_credentials = $mysql-&gt;verify_Username_and_Pass($un, md5($pwd));
  
          if($ensure_credentials) {
              $_SESSION['status'] = 'authorized';
              header("location: index.php");
          } else return "Please enter a correct username and password";
  
      } 
  
      function log_User_Out() {
          if(isset($_SESSION['status'])) {
              unset($_SESSION['status']);
  
              if(isset($_COOKIE[session_name()])) 
                  setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 1000);
                  session_destroy();
          }
      }
  
      function confirm_Member() {
          session_start();
          if($_SESSION['status'] !='authorized') header("location: login.php");
      }
  
   }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Mysql.php</p>
  
  <p>This is what is connecting to the data base.<br>
      
  
  <pre><code>require_once 'includes/constants.php';
  
  class Mysql {
      private $conn;
  
      function __construct() {
          $this-&gt;conn = new mysqli(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) or 
                        die('There was a problem connecting to the database.');
      }
  
      function verify_Username_and_Pass($un, $pwd) {
  
          $query = "SELECT *
                  FROM users
                  WHERE username = ? AND password = ?
                  LIMIT 1";
  
          if($stmt = $this-&gt;conn-&gt;prepare($query)) {
              $stmt-&gt;bind_param('ss', $un, $pwd);
              $stmt-&gt;execute();
  
              if($stmt-&gt;fetch()) {
                  $stmt-&gt;close();
                  return true;
              }
          }
  
      }
  }
  </code></pre>