Re: Auth? Can I generate customized error messages based on the type of login failure?

I don't think you can do this, because if you examine the PEAR::DB code, it's just making a single insertion into the database, which returns the error. If you wanted to know whether it was password or username you would have to select each of those separately from the database (and then do an insertion), making for three database accesses. I you want to do this, you need to code it yourself and bypass Auth for that. But it's not a good idea from a security standpoint anyway, since it would allow people to guess usernames. On Jun 24, 2004, at 10:36 PM, bclem@imaginative-enterprises.com wrote:

Hi All, Is it at all possible to return the exact type of login failure from the auth class rather than just the constant value of -3? If so, how would I do it? I have a login form that get's submitted, I'd like to return a custom error message based on the type of login failure, be it username not registered, password incorrect, etc etc. Thanks, Brent -- PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php