Auth

Creating an authentication system.

The PEAR::Auth package provides methods for creating an authentication system using PHP. Currently it supports the following storage containers to read/write the login data: * All databases supported by the PEAR database layer * Plaintext files * LDAP servers MJ Martin Jansen mj@php.net lead jflemer James E. Flemer jflemer@acm.jhu.edu developer 1.1.0 2002-09-02 PHP License stable This release contains a lot of fixes and massive improvements. See the changelog for the complete list. 1.1.0 2002-09-26 stable * Silenced some warnings when working with <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ?> and fixed two bugs. * Don't update idletime after the authentification session has expired. * Allow setting session ID in assignData(). This becomes handy when using Auth_HTTP. (Patch by Marko Karppinen, <karppinen@pobox.com>) * Added optional setLoginCallback() and setLogoutCallback() methods. (Patch by Marko Karppinen, <karppinen@pobox.com>) * Added method setIdle() that complements to setExpire(). (Patch by Marko Karppinen, <karppinen@pobox.com>) * Added new methods setAuthData() and getAuthData() that allow to write and read additional data into/from the session pool. * Improved internal handling of session variables. * Instead of sticking to md5 as the password encryption method, one can now choose between standard Unix DES-based encryption algorithm, md5 hashing and using plain text passwords. Please note that the last option is a security risk and shouldn't be used unless you *really* now what you are doing. * Database storage container: Only open connection to SQL server if it is really necessary. This speeds up the whole process in a lot of situations.