Re: another Auth-class

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:40:12 +0100, Wolfram Kriesing wrote: >I have written another Auth-classes based on the PEAR::DB concept >(which i really like - thanks Stig) > >http://wolfram.kriesing.de/programming/index.php >And after evaluating the PEAR::Auth i just didnt find it >really meeting all my needs. And an authentication system is also some >kind of abstraction, because there might be a DB, LDAP or whatever >below which stores the authentication data. PEAR::Auth already uses storage containers. Currently there is only an interface to PEAR::DB available, but others are easy to implement. Currently I have some updates for PEAR::Auth pending, which will include the following features: * In the next release it will be possible to specifiy your own function to create the login form. So it is not necessary anymore to derive the Auth class in order to get another style for the login form. * The storage container is much more flexible now: It accepts a second parameter that represents an array that can contain alternativ names for the table, for the column containing the username, for the column that that contains the password etc. * There will be the possibility to use "default auth" (don't know the final name for it) to make it optional if the user has to authenticate or not. I think that I'll commit them at the end of this week. - Martin