Re: Hoping for a hand with a login script

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:00:19PM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > From: Ben Dunlap <snip> > > > > http://codeigniter.com/ > > http://framework.zend.com/ > > http://www.solarphp.com/ > > While I have not looked at the last two, there is one thing that bothers > me about your recommendation of codeigniter. Authentication is a basic > function that should be used for any web site with interactive features. > There is such a universal need for this function that there should be > several packages available to provide it. But I believe that telling > someone to adopt a complete portal system like CI just to get basic > authentication is gross overkill. There has to be a better way to > provide this core functionality without installing a monster package > that will be 95% superfluous to their needs. > > Yes, I have installed codeigniter. I am still trying to figure out why I > would want to use it. Moreover, I'm using CI right now, and as far as I know, it does *no* user authentication. I had to write my own routines, using their session class to save the user data. Paul -- Paul M. Foster