RE: [PEAR] RE: usage of PEAR::AUTH ?

Maybe you guys should look at http://opensource.visionp.de/modules/project/auth.php. A valuable alternative Auth module with a lot of backends, and a lot easier to use and deploy. Best Regards, Ronny PS: Also available as a PEAR package! > -----Original Message----- > From: Guy Weatherburn [mailto:guy@e-guy.co.uk] > Sent: donderdag 3 oktober 2002 21:40 > To: pear-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PEAR] RE: usage of PEAR::AUTH ? > > > All, > > Must admit that despite having several years of PHP > experience and over 25 > years of programming/scripting experience that I find the Auth module of > Pear to be an absolute pain!!!! For starters the ambiguity of the database > name and tables defaults are a no no!!! > the rest of it seems to be rocket science despite the fact that > if you look > at the code it can not be. Can someone who really knows what is > trying to be > done please write some tutorials along the lines of those > available for the > DB stuff... This will clear up several problems for me and also for others > that are struggling.!!!??? > > Guy > The e-Guy Ltd (co.uk) > www.e-guy.co.uk > > PS Having decided (i.e. been forced by a potential client) would > like to use > PEAR > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gunther [mailto:g@guntherrichter.com] > Sent: 03 October 2002 03:21 > To: pear-general@lists.php.net > Subject: usage of PEAR::AUTH ? > > > After some kind of struggle through the documentation, missing functions, > taking the latest cvs, > therefore changing PEAR DB.php (PEAR::isConnection was missing in my local > 4.2.1 PHP installation), > I am now at the point where I actually like to use Auth. > With some basic documentation I got a basic login functionality > (with Smarty > templates). Now I would like > to use session timeout etc. with the existing Auth functions > setIdle() etc. > But somehow it simply ignores > whatever I do. Only when I set $idle manually within Auth.php it > is working > fine. > > Is there some kind of documentation (please no hints to the docs > ...) about > how to actually use the different > functions in CONTEXT. e.g. using checkAuth(), instead of > getAuth(), where to > use getStatus()? > getStatus() for instance is in the documentation, but not in the 'latetest > download', therefore I used the cvs files. > > Would be nice to see a 'real' application using Auth! > > And is there a way to store the session in a DB? And if ... what is the > advantage? > There is the DB_Session class ... would that be an enhancement ? > > Any hints are very much appreciated!! > > Gunther > > > > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >