[ANNOUNCEMENT] LiveUser-0.16.8 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package LiveUser-0.16.8 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - clearer status and error messages - fix a bug with the passed Log object being discarded - extra debug info when the auth container is instantiated - more helpful error message when the class cannot be loaded - make the PEAR::Auth wrapper use the passed handle and password - fixed phpdoc typo in singleton method (bug #5668) - fixed ability to call singleton() with only the conf parameter set, even if singleton was never called before (bug #5669) - fixed issue in factoryStorage() that would lead to modifying the config array (bug #5526) - added ability to disable executing the sql commands on installSchema() - set status after logging out not before - tweaked error messages for failed factory method calls - fix for calling singleton without a signature string (bug #5905) - attempt at checking if it is safe to start the session, add an error to the stack if not and return - minor performance tweak in login() - reordered code inside login() to make onFailedMapping events more powerful - improved handling of INACTIVE status - stop using backendArrayIndex infavor of containerName property in the auth instance - removed loginTimeout feature (disable lastlogin if you are concerned about the cost of updating the lastlogin time) - handle option user data properties in readUserData() in the PEAR::Auth wrapper - added a few return true's for method that returned void so far - tons of phpdoc and whitespace fixes and additions - add missing css file in example5 - only read remember me cookie in login() if remember was passed as true (bug #6215) - handle and password are passed to reeadUserData in the PEARAuth container - reworked file loading in loadClass() to work around issues in safe_mode with LiveUser::fileExists() (bug #6226) - moved all explict handling of logout() and login() out of the init() method *BC BREAK* - made setRememberCookie(), readRememberCookie() and deleteRememberCookie public - setRememberCookie() no longer accepts a remember parameter - added PDO backend and optional pdo based config for example5 Package Info ------------- LiveUser is a set of classes for dealing with user authentication and permission management. Basically, there are three main elements that make up this package: * The LiveUser class * The Auth containers * The Perm containers The LiveUser class takes care of the login process and can be configured to use a certain permission container and one or more different auth containers. That means, you can have your users' data scattered amongst many data containers and have the LiveUser class try each defined container until the user is found. For example, you can have all website users who can apply for a new account online on the webserver's local database. Also, you want to enable all your company's employees to login to the site without the need to create new accounts for all of them. To achieve that, a second container can be defined to be used by the LiveUser class. You can also define a permission container of your choice that will manage the rights for each user. Depending on the container, you can implement any kind of permission schemes for your application while having one consistent API. Using different permission and auth containers, it's easily possible to integrate newly written applications with older ones that have their own ways of storing permissions and user data. Just make a new container type and you're ready to go! Currently available are containers using: PEAR::DB, PEAR::MDB, PEAR::MDB2, PEAR::XML_Tree and PEAR::Auth. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser/download/0.16.8 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/LiveUser-0.16.8.tgz Authors ------------- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de> (lead) Lukas Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org> (lead) Björn Kraus <krausbn@php.net> (developer) Arnaud Limbourg <arnaud@limbourg.com> (lead) Helgi Þormar <dufuz@php.net> (lead)