Re: We need another Auth

Bertrand Mansion wrote: > > le 11/06/02 12:27, Tomas V.V.Cox à cox@idecnet.com a écrit : > > > 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. > > I agree with the conclusion, we definitely need something... > > Markus is apparently working on something and if we stopped discussing this > topic, it's probably because we are waiting to see his code. I think it will > be a first step and everyone interested in such a class will have to try to > contribute to make Markus code fit their needs. > > Markus said he would show his code by the end of the week. I don't want to > put too much pressure on him but we are all waiting for it... :-) > So, this is still work in progress. s/still/finally/ :-) Tomas V.V.Cox