what's the best authentication library?

[Bob]

Hello!!!
I am programming a community website, with the usual stuff... some
people must subscribe and become members, so they can log in and visit
some pages and discuss between them, it's a community website.

I was new to PHP 2 months ago so I tried many libraries,
For now, I am using
- Smarty for templates
- Pear:DB for the database
- phplib for authentication

The problem is that phplib is too limited for what I would like...

Especially I need to have an auto-login feature. I want to have the
possibility to temporarly block access to some user without deleting
them from the database.
Also when the user logs in, I want to have his datas loaded from the
base and accessible in some php array until he leaves.

I tried Pear:Auth, I also tried phpauth (http://www.phpauth.com/)
which is an unofficial imrpovement of phplib, but it needs some
configuration of php I can not change. I also had a look at gacl
(http://phpgacl.sourceforge.net/) but it looks too complicated for
what I want!

My question is, what authentication library are you using??
If I could get something that works as fine as phpbb, that would be
great, but I can not really come and steal their code!!!!!

Thanks for any opinion!!!
Bob

[Michael Austin]

Bob wrote:

Hello!!!
I am programming a community website, with the usual stuff... some
people must subscribe and become members, so they can log in and visit
some pages and discuss between them, it's a community website.

I was new to PHP 2 months ago so I tried many libraries,
For now, I am using
- Smarty for templates
- Pear:DB for the database
- phplib for authentication

The problem is that phplib is too limited for what I would like...

Especially I need to have an auto-login feature. I want to have the
possibility to temporarly block access to some user without deleting
them from the database.
Also when the user logs in, I want to have his datas loaded from the
base and accessible in some php array until he leaves.

add a "status" field to the database (if you are able too..) and in your
authentication routine add (psuedo-code)
is username, password correct AND status = 1 //1 for good 0 for bad etc...

then all you need to do is change the status.

<snip>

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

ro**********@consultant.com (Bob) wrote in message news:<de**************************@posting.google. com>...
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My question is, what authentication library are you using??

Mine is based on the logic found at
<http://martin.f2o.org/php/login>. I did add some more stuffs like
number of online members/guests with custom session handlers.

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[Justin Koivisto]

Bob wrote:

Hello!!!
I am programming a community website, with the usual stuff... some
people must subscribe and become members, so they can log in and visit
some pages and discuss between them, it's a community website.

I was new to PHP 2 months ago so I tried many libraries,
For now, I am using
- Smarty for templates
- Pear:DB for the database
- phplib for authentication

The problem is that phplib is too limited for what I would like...

Especially I need to have an auto-login feature. I want to have the
possibility to temporarly block access to some user without deleting
them from the database.
Also when the user logs in, I want to have his datas loaded from the
base and accessible in some php array until he leaves.

I tried Pear:Auth, I also tried phpauth (http://www.phpauth.com/)
which is an unofficial imrpovement of phplib, but it needs some
configuration of php I can not change. I also had a look at gacl
(http://phpgacl.sourceforge.net/) but it looks too complicated for
what I want!

My question is, what authentication library are you using??
If I could get something that works as fine as phpbb, that would be
great, but I can not really come and steal their code!!!!!

I've been using the one I created for a couple years now:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsecurityadm

I'm trying to find time to replace the metabase code in favor of
PEAR::MDB, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

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[steve]

"Bob126" wrote:

Hello!!!
I am programming a community website, with the usual stuff... some
people must subscribe and become members, so they can log in and visit some pages and discuss between them, it’s a community website.

I was new to PHP 2 months ago so I tried many libraries,
For now, I am using
- Smarty for templates
- Pear:DB for the database
- phplib for authentication

The problem is that phplib is too limited for what I would like...

Especially I need to have an auto-login feature. I want to have the
possibility to temporarly block access to some user without deleting them from the database.
Also when the user logs in, I want to have his datas loaded from the base and accessible in some php array until he leaves.

I tried Pear:Auth, I also tried phpauth (http://www.phpauth.com/)
which is an unofficial imrpovement of phplib, but it needs some
configuration of php I can not change. I also had a look at gacl
(http://phpgacl.sourceforge.net/) but it looks too complicated for
what I want!

My question is, what authentication library are you using??
If I could get something that works as fine as phpbb, that would be
great, but I can not really come and steal their code!!!!!

Thanks for any opinion!!!
Bob

Just thinking out of the box, have you looked at content management
systems CMS, like PHP-NUKE. I suggest not to recreate what has
already been done, and to start with code that can then be customized.

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