diff --git a/var/www/login.php b/var/www/login.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82554d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/www/login.php
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?php
+session_start();
+?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+    <head> 
+        <title>FriendBook Login</title> 
+        <meta http-equiv="content-type" 
+            content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> 
+    </head> 
+    <body>
+        <style>
+            body {
+                background-color: #3B5998;
+            }
+        </style>
+        <div class="message"><?php if($_SESSION["loginError"]!="") { echo $_SESSION["loginError"]; } ?></div>
+        <h2><font color="white">Please Login</h2>
+        <form action="loginCheck.php" method="post">
+            User&colon;
+            <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username"><br>
+            Password&colon;
+            <input type="password" name="password" placeholder="Password"><br>
+            <input type="submit">
+        </form>
+    </body>
+</html> 
diff --git a/var/www/loginCheck.php b/var/www/loginCheck.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f479258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/www/loginCheck.php
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?php
+session_start();
+
+$server = "localhost";
+$database = "friendBook";
+$username = "web";
+$password = "Password456";
+
+try{
+    $connection = new PDO("mysql:host=$server;dbname=$database", $username, $password);
+    $connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
+    echo "Connected successfully";
+    if(count($_POST) > 0){
+        $matchingUsers = $connection->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM login WHERE username = '".$_POST["Username"]."' and pword = '".$_POST["Password"]."'");
+        if($matchingUsers > 0){
+            // User has been authenticated; set user as logged in
+            $_SESSION["loggedInUser"] = "".$_POST["Username"]."";
+            $_SESSION["loginError"] = "";
+            // Move onto landing page
+            header("Location: /landingPage.html");
+            die();
+        }else{
+            // No matching users found, send user error
+            $_SESSION["loginError"] = "Invalid Username or Password";
+            // Return to login page
+            header("Location: /login.php");
+            die();
+        }
+    }else{
+        // Return to login page, as credentials were not captured
+        $_SESSION["loginError"] = "Login credentials not found, please try again";
+        header("Location: /login.php");
+        die();
+    }
+}
+catch(PDOException $e){
+    echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
+}
+?>
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diff --git a/var/www/logout.php b/var/www/logout.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b7c9d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/www/logout.php
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?php
+session_start();
+?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+    <head> 
+        <title>FriendBook Logout</title> 
+        <meta http-equiv="content-type" 
+            content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> 
+    </head> 
+    <body>
+
+        <?php
+        session_unset(); // remove all session variables
+        session_destroy(); // destroy the session
+        ?>
+
+        <style>
+        body {
+            background-color: #3B5998;
+        }
+        </style>
+        <h2><font color="white">You have been successfully logged out.</h2>
+        <button type="button" onclick="window.location.href = 'friends.html'">Login again? (FIXME)</button>
+    </body>
+</html> 
diff --git a/var/www/phptest.php b/var/www/phptest.php
index 9ffb6a9..4ba50ac 100644
--- a/var/www/phptest.php
+++ b/var/www/phptest.php
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <?php
+session_start();
+
 $server = "localhost";
 $database = "friendBook";
 $username = "web";
@@ -12,7 +14,9 @@ $user = "William"; // Testing with until we have login working
     <head>
     </head>
     <body>
-        <h1>PHP Test Page - Connecting to MySQL</h1>
+        <h1>PHP Test Page</h1>
+        
+        <h2>Connecting to MySQL</h2>
 
         <?php
         try{
@@ -34,8 +38,12 @@ $user = "William"; // Testing with until we have login working
             print $row['message'] . "\t";
         }
 
-        mysqli_close($connection);
+        $conn = null;
         ?>
 
+        <h2>PHP Session Info</h2>
+        <?php
+        print_r($_SESSION);
+        ?>
     </body>
 </html>
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