Re: PHP5 OpenID for PEAR

Pádraic Brady wrote: > Hi all, > > This is mainly a slightly longer response to a comment by Greg to my blog. > > As Greg noted, PEAR does not currently have a library supporting OpenID authentication. > I've been working on an OpenID library in PHP5 for something proprietary but I retain the full > rights to the code and I have been intending on making it open source. > > Back in February I was investigating ways of distributing it. At that time I decided on a > contribution to the Zend Framework since I use it almost weekly at this point. The other option has > been PEAR though I was unsure at the time whether JanRain were progressing their proposal or > considering amendments. > > If JanRain are not persuing their proposal, it's worth noting the Zend Framework's > CLA (contributor agreement) does not impinge on my rights as the libraries copyright holder. So > it's entirely valid to make a similar release into PEAR and I'd be interested in doing so > in the future once the open source library is finalised (mainly refactoring out some of my time > saving practices from the original 1.1 library). > > Once I have sorted out where the Zend Framework proposal is heading, I'll revisit a PEAR > proposal here. The code should already follow most of the PEAR coding standard since the framework > uses a similar standard. When it's more available I'll also let folk here know where it > can be looked over, prodded, and generally picked apart for comment. > > Best regards, Hi, That would be great to have such a package in PEAR. Arnaud.