Re: what's the best authentication library?

From: steve (UseLinkToEmail_at_dbForumz.com)
Date: 07/15/04


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:40:03 GMT


"Bob126" 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.
>
> 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

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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