Re: Using Auth

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:16:35 -0800 (PST), Rupsi Kegelmann <rupsikegelmann@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning on using PEAR for a new project. For the > login process, I have the following requirements: > > 1. The user can login via a login form, requesting > user name and password > 2. If the login fails, the request is redirected back > to the login page, displaying an error message ("Login > failed - try again") > 3. If the login succeeds, the main page is displayed > 4. Whenever an unauthorized user tries to access a > page within the application other than the login page, > he is redirected to the login page > > I want to realize this procedure using the PEAR Auth > package. However, the documentation seems relatively > opaque to me. Regarding the example given at > > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.authentication.auth.intro.php, > > I have the following questions: > > 1. Is the Auth package appropriate for the intended > use (as described above)? > 2. At which point in the given example script is the > login screen actually displayed (i.e. "loginFunction" > called)? > 3. What does a->start() actually do? The docs say, it > starts the authentication process, but what does that > mean? > 4. How does the control flow in the script work? It > seems to me that the script has to be called at least > twice, the first time to output the login screen for > the user, the second time to verify the login data, > after the user has pressed the submit button. > 5. The script shows how a successful login attempt is > handled. But, how is it possible to react to an > unsuccessful attempt as described above, by displaying > the login screen with an error message? > 6. How can point (4) of the requirements be realized? > Try actually running the example, it may clear things up. I'm positive that you can do all of that with PEAR::Auth very easily. -- Justin Patrin