Authentication class??

johnie

Hi.
Could you please suggest an authentication class for use with cookies and sessions?

I want the user to be logged in when he revisits and not log out and session_destroy when he closes the browser. I do this through cookies.

Thanks,
John

olaf

Yes use patUser (http://www.php-tools.de/)

there is also a good article about using this class on http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP

jmcneese

...or PEAR::Auth (http://pear.php.net/package/Auth)

johnie

As far as i've studied PEAR::Auth, it doesn't provide ways of authorizing using cookies and sessions for writing data.

John

olaf

use patuser, it works very good (with sessions)

jmcneese

Originally posted by johnie
As far as i've studied PEAR::Auth, it doesn't provide ways of authorizing using cookies and sessions for writing data.

John

    // {{{ start()

/**
 * Start new auth session
 *
 * @access public
 * @return void
 */
function start()
{
    $this->assignData();

    session_start();

    if (!$this->checkAuth()) {
        $this->login();
    }
}

// }}}

i wonder how that got in there. strange.

olaf

Yes it looks like that Pear use sessions too...

(from the manual)

Auth::setSessionname() -- set a custom session name

jmcneese,
do you work a lot with pear?

(after a short look about the auth class it seems to be very easy to use, with plenty of info’s...)

jmcneese

do you work a lot with pear?

yes, quite a bit actually. i've got an MVC (sort of) app that uses several PEAR classes....let's see:

Auth
Benchmark
Cache
DB

i'm looking into LiveUser to replace my current use of phpgacl, since it uses ADODB, and it's a bit silly to have two DB abstraction layers in one application.