Re: We need another Auth

Sagie Maoz wrote: > > Peter Bowyer wrote > > > Bertrand, I just want to say that I agree 100% with you. For me, Auth > > is useless as it stands, and I end up writing my own code for each > > project. > > > > What I would like to see is a great implementation of Auth/User > > management in PEAR, that is pushed as a PHP standard. You know how > > painful it is to try and integrate 4-5 existing scripts out there into > > a CMS (Gallery, phpBB, Phorum etc) and to merge their authentication > > and login capabilities. If we could come up with that killer auth > > class that was acceptable for most script writers then tasks such as > > this would be much easier. > > This is a very interesting idea, I'm for, and willing to help if it'd > get in. > Here we have talked a lot about it, and we always reached the conclusion that is definetly a needed thing. There are people wanting to contribute, many ideas, even a mailing list dedicated to it, but never anybody took the task of writting some specs or present some code :-) Try seraching for "userclass" and "PEAR User" in the archives. Tomas V.V.Cox