A registration form is used to collect data from potential users of your website.
This is necessary, especially if you want these users to subscribe to a certain service in which they would have to login to access.
In this tutorial, we will look at how to create a registration form using Node.js and MySQL.
Let’s begin …
First, we create a MySQL database
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`first_name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`last_name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(300) NOT NULL,
`date_time` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT current_timestamp()
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
What we want to do next is to create a package.json file where will install the dependencies that are necessary for this project to work.
//Create a package.json file
npm init --yWe will install other dependencies as follows:
npm install express --save // use express sever
npm install mysql //use mysql module
npm install nodemon //watch for file changes
npm install cryptr //encrypt our passwordNext we create an index.html file where we will write our HTML code
<html>
<body>
<form action="/register-controller" method="POST">
First Name: <input type="text" name="name">
Email: <input type="text" name="email">
Paswword: <input type="password" name="password">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Next we create a config.js file where we will make the database connection.
var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createPool({
host : 'localhost',
user : 'root',
password : '',
database : 'test2',
port: '8080'
});
connection.getConnection(function(err){
if(!err) {
console.log("Database is connected");
} else {
console.log(`Error while connecting with database ${err}` );
}
});
module.exports = connection;
Moving forward, we create a controller file that will insert our collected data into the database.
var Cryptr = require('cryptr');
var express=require("express");
var connection = require('./config');
cryptr = new Cryptr('myTotalySecretKey');
module.exports.register=function(req,res){
var today = new Date();
var encryptedString = cryptr.encrypt(req.body.password);
var users={
"name":req.body.name,
"email":req.body.email,
"password":req.body.password,
"created_at":today,
"updated_at":today
}
connection.query('INSERT INTO users SET ?',users, function (error, results, fields) {
//connection.release()
if (error) {
res.json({
status:false,
message:'there are some error with query'
})
}else{
res.json({
status:true,
data:results,
message:'user registered successfully'
})
}
});
}
Your result should look like this:
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