[ANNOUNCEMENT] Auth-1.3.0r3 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Auth-1.3.0r3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- * Moved login screen generation code to Auth/Frontend/Html.php In the future the frontend will be configurable. * Implemented support for Challenge / Responce password authenthication have to enable advanced security $auth->setAdvancedSecurity will work only with DB container and cryptType = none|md5 * Implemented setAllowLogin to control which pages are allowed to perform login, to preservce BC. Previusly the showLogin flag was used to control this - yavo * Implmented lazy loading for the storage constructor, constructor is only created when needed to make Auth more lightweight (this might be adding a bit more overhead to login and usermanagement functions) * Removed include of PEAR, was not used anywhare in Auth.php * Created a new storage container DBLite same as DB but with the user manipulation functions removed (50% smaller) * Added a new method staticCheckAuth which can be called statically with only the auth options * Auth::importGlobalVariable method was removed and replaced by references to global variables * Removed all calls to $session[$this->_sessionName], made local reference session point to that instead * Changed call_user_func to call_user_func_array for the callbacks, to avoid using @ for passing variables by reference * Code Cleanup, removed most vi comments Package Info ------------- The PEAR::Auth package provides methods for creating an authentication system using PHP. Currently it supports the following storage containers to read/write the login data: * All databases supported by the PEAR database layer * All databases supported by the MDB database layer * All databases supported by the MDB2 database layer * Plaintext files * LDAP servers * POP3 servers * IMAP servers * vpopmail accounts * RADIUS * SAMBA password files * SOAP Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Auth Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Auth/download/1.3.0r3 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Auth-1.3.0r3.tgz Authors ------------- Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (lead) James E. Flemer <jflemer@alum.rpi.edu> (developer) Yavor Shahpasov <yavo@siava.org> (lead)