Password Revcovery in PHP & MYSQL

Before moving towards the reset your password first we need a user registration and login script in php, so if you do not know how to register user and login, you can check out previous post about Simple User Registration & Login Script in PHP and MySQL.

To implement forgot password recovery, you must set up user registration script so that you can add forgot password functionality in it. However, it is not mandatory if you are an advance user and you can integrate it in your project then you do not need to set it up.
In user registration table name users, we will use the same table to check if the user exist or not. You will add files of this tutorial in user registration and login script folder.
We will send an email using PHPMailer, if you do not know how to user PHPMailer so you can check post on PHPMailer tutorial, there is detailed information about how to send email in PHP using PHPMailer.
Steps to Forgot Password Recovery (Reset) using PHP and MySQL
Follow these steps to implement forgot password functionality.
1. Create a Temporary Token Table
2. Create a Database Connection
3. Create an Index File (Send Email)
4. Create a Reset Password File
5. Create a CSS File