what's the best authentication library?

External Since: Jul 14, 2004 Posts: 1

Hello!!!
I am programming a community website, with the usual stuff... some
people must subscribe and become members, so they can log in and visit
some pages and discuss between them, it's a community website.

I was new to PHP 2 months ago so I tried many libraries,
For now, I am using
- Smarty for templates
- Pear:DB for the database
- phplib for authentication

The problem is that phplib is too limited for what I would like...

Especially I need to have an auto-login feature. I want to have the
possibility to temporarly block access to some user without deleting
them from the database.
Also when the user logs in, I want to have his datas loaded from the
base and accessible in some php array until he leaves.

I tried Pear:Auth, I also tried phpauth (http://www.phpauth.com/)
which is an unofficial imrpovement of phplib, but it needs some
configuration of php I can not change. I also had a look at gacl
(http://phpgacl.sourceforge.net/) but it looks too complicated for
what I want!

My question is, what authentication library are you using??
If I could get something that works as fine as phpbb, that would be
great, but I can not really come and steal their code!!!!!

Thanks for any opinion!!!
Bob

External Since: May 31, 2004 Posts: 67

Bob wrote:

> Hello!!!
> I am programming a community website, with the usual stuff... some
> people must subscribe and become members, so they can log in and visit
> some pages and discuss between them, it's a community website.
>
> I was new to PHP 2 months ago so I tried many libraries,
> For now, I am using
> - Smarty for templates
> - Pear:DB for the database
> - phplib for authentication
>
> The problem is that phplib is too limited for what I would like...
>
> Especially I need to have an auto-login feature. I want to have the
> possibility to temporarly block access to some user without deleting
> them from the database.
> Also when the user logs in, I want to have his datas loaded from the
> base and accessible in some php array until he leaves.

add a "status" field to the database (if you are able too..) and in your
authentication routine add (psuedo-code)
is username, password correct AND status = 1 //1 for good 0 for bad etc...

then all you need to do is change the status.

<snip>

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Joined: Jan 06, 2004 Posts: 660

Just thinking out of the box, have you looked at content management systems CMS, like PHP-NUKE. I suggest not to recreate what has already been done, and to start with code that can then be customized.
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