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Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hello,
What's the best option for handling authentication and user management in CI at this point?
I've read a bunch of old articles and posts and couldn't find a clear answer (several efforts seemed abandoned). Is there a library that's current and working? Will this functionality be included in the next version of CI?
Thanks.
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]John Fuller[/eluser]
I think building your own is the only way to go at this point.
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
You've asked for opinions...you'll get many. My opinion is to put your authentication into a library and us it throughout all of your CI applications. Others take different approaches. There are several efforts that are actively being supported...
Here is a link the to wiki pages of three open source solutions:
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Category:Contributions::Libraries::Authentication/
and here is link to a closed source, commercial solution I've proposed:
http://plurious.com/ci
and the corresponding forum topic: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/91880/
Hope this is helpful,
Randy
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
Oh...and no, Authentication and it's brother Authorization (ACL) will not be provided in the next release of CI.
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
[quote author="Randy Casburn" date="1224630871"]Oh...and no, Authentication and it's brother Authorization (ACL) will not be provided in the next release of CI.[/quote]
And I hope they never will...
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]John Fuller[/eluser]
[quote author="Developer13" date="1224638208"][quote author="Randy Casburn" date="1224630871"]Oh...and no, Authentication and it's brother Authorization (ACL) will not be provided in the next release of CI.[/quote]
And I hope they never will...[/quote]
Are you trying to start something?
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
[quote author="John Fuller" date="1224638462"][quote author="Developer13" date="1224638208"][quote author="Randy Casburn" date="1224630871"]Oh...and no, Authentication and it's brother Authorization (ACL) will not be provided in the next release of CI.[/quote]
And I hope they never will...[/quote]
Are you trying to start something?
[/quote]Not at all - just agreeing with you and Randy. I don't think ACL and whatnot should be built into the framework. I think some nicely maintained drop-in libraries would be great, but it doesn't belong in the framework itself.
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hey John and Randy,
Thanks for your responses. I guess I'll review the library options again and/or consider what to include if I write my own (though most frameworks include this functionality).
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-22-2008
[eluser]manilodisan[/eluser]
You may also try Webber which is based on Codeigniter and comes with a built-in advanced user administration and also capable of extending with modules.
Authentication/User management: What's the best option? - El Forum - 10-22-2008
[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
Sorry manilodisan, I didn't consciously leave you out. Why don't you add your self to the wiki page I listed above so you can get included when these things get mentioned. I for one always use that as a listing to point folks to.
Randy