Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] LiveUser-0.61 (alpha) Released.

I am really excited about this package and want to implement it in a system I am currently revamping, but I am scared to use an alpha release. Is there an ETA on a stable release? -Jackson On Monday 17 March 2003 5:54 pm, PEAR Announce wrote: > The new PEAR package LiveUser-0.61 (alpha) has been released at > http://pear.php.net/. > > Release notes > ------------- > Major features in this release: > * Fixed some bugs > * One new auth container (XML) > * Two new permissions container (DB_Simple and XML_Simple) > * Added new examples > > Package Info > ------------- > Perm_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 LoginManager > * The Auth containers > * The Perm containers > The LoginManager 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 LoginManager 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 > LoginManager. 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 RDBMS containers using > PEAR::DB. > More are soon to follow. > > Related Links > ------------- > Package home: > http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=LiveUser > Changelog: > http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=LiveUser > Download: http://pear.php.net/get/LiveUser-0.61.tgz > > Authors > ------------- > Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de> (lead) > Lukas Smith <smith@backendmedia.com> (contributor) > Christian Dickmann <dickmann@php.net> (contributor) > Pierre-Alain Joye <paj@pearfr.org> (contributor) > Björn Kraus <krausbn@php.net> (contributor) > Arnaud Limbourg <arnaud.limbourg@club-internet.fr> (contributor)