Re: Re: A session class (was Re: [PEAR-DEV] Namespace issues)

On Fri, 17 May 2002 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT), David Norman wrote: >I haven't used Stig's Auth class. Perhaps I haven't read this list >close enough, but I wonder why there is such a cry for a grand >"authentication system". I've found nothing wrong with just something >like: > > if(!strcmp($_POST["login_username"], 'deekayen') > && !strcmp($_POST["login_pass"], 'asdf')) { > > $_SESSION["user"]["username"] = 'deekayen'; > $_SESSION["logged_in"] = true; Basically you can substiture *every* package from PEAR with some lines of "simple" PHP code. But PEAR aims to provide reusable and standard compliant code, which your example above definitively not is. In case of the authentication class, we also provide some abstract storage containers like databases, text files or LDAP servers that are easily accessible and have a clean-structured API. The clean structured API again applies to all PEAR code and you can't really say that your example has a (clean) API ;-). - Martin -- Martin Jansen, <mail@martin-jansen.de> http://www.martin-jansen.de/