RE: [PHP] Alternatives to PHPLib for authentication, session management, etc

[Jake McHenry]

If it still works, then why switch? I wrote my own auth routines Phplib
was last released last summer? That's not TOO old
http://phplib.sourceforge.net/

Jake


> 
> Hi.
> 
> Been using PHP since the 2.0 days, and been using PHPLib 
> since 2000 as 
> the main method of user authentication (logging in/out during same 
> session), and simultaneously use it to give the users who are 
> logged in different permissions.
> 
> Since PHPLib has long ago stopped (at least in my opinion) active 
> development, I am wondering what other systems people use to 
> deal with 
> authentication and permission levels.
> 
> I'd love to hear about complete libraries/methods that I could use as 
> a replacement for PHPLib with the minimum of fuss.
> 
> 
> 
> As an example, in the pages I do NOT want to protect, I 
> merely need to 
> create a variable: $AUTHENTICATION = "off";
> and my global includes check for that:
> 
> if ($AUTHENTICATION != "off") {
> page_open(
>array("sess" => "Example_Session",
>  "auth" => "Example_Auth",
>  "perm" => "Example_Perm"));
> }
> 
> Which causes PHPLib authentication to be ignored for that 
> page.  Every 
> other page authenticates via the page_open() function.  
> PHPLib does it 
> all behind the sceneswhich makes it very easy.
> 
> 
> So, basically I'm looking for a system that works better than what 
> I've got w/ PHPLib, that will be fairly easy to maintain  -- as well 
> as drop-in as a replacement in the 100s of websites that I've 
> developed that use that authentication scheme.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> mark
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[PHP] Alternatives to PHPLib for authentication, session management, etc

[Mark R. Cervarich]

Hi.

Been using PHP since the 2.0 days, and been using PHPLib since 2000 as 
the main method of user authentication (logging in/out during same 
session), and simultaneously use it to give the users who are 
logged in different permissions.


Since PHPLib has long ago stopped (at least in my opinion) active 
development, I am wondering what other systems people use to deal with 
authentication and permission levels.


I'd love to hear about complete libraries/methods that I could use as 
a replacement for PHPLib with the minimum of fuss.




As an example, in the pages I do NOT want to protect, I merely need to 
create a variable: $AUTHENTICATION = "off";

and my global includes check for that:

if ($AUTHENTICATION != "off") {
   page_open(
  array("sess" => "Example_Session",
"auth" => "Example_Auth",
"perm" => "Example_Perm"));
}

Which causes PHPLib authentication to be ignored for that page.  Every 
other page authenticates via the page_open() function.  PHPLib does it 
all behind the sceneswhich makes it very easy.



So, basically I'm looking for a system that works better than what 
I've got w/ PHPLib, that will be fairly easy to maintain  -- as well 
as drop-in as a replacement in the 100s of websites that I've 
developed that use that authentication scheme.


Thanks in advance,
mark

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