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Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-09-2009
[eluser]Tim Stackhouse[/eluser]
I'm just getting started with Code Igniter, so forgive my ignorance, but does anyone have any recommendations for an easy to use authentication/authorization plugin/library? I've tried to use a few, including DX_Auth and Auth (based off Sentry), and both were plagued with configuration issues that I simply couldn't resolve. Anyone out there have any recommendations?
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-09-2009
[eluser]Tim Stackhouse[/eluser]
I've made some progress, however I'm still getting cryptic errors out of Auth:
An Error Was Encountered
Unable to load the requested file: .php
The log messages are useless, nothing that would indicate where the error occurred.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-09-2009
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
I can't recommend anything specific, but this URL might help you decide for yourself: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/346980/what-code-igniter-authentication-library-is-best
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-09-2009
[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
I looked at a few, a while back, and concluded dx-auth was probably the easiest / best one for what I wanted .. but after a few days I concluded it was (or rather would grow to be) more work to get it wrangled into play than to write (and grow) my own.
I gather quite a few people come to this conclusion, about a whole bunch of potentially drop-in-able code.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-09-2009
[eluser]NogDog[/eluser]
I used DX_Auth for the first time recently and had very little trouble with it. What may have helped was that I decided to try it before I did much else of anything with regards to the application design, so I didn't have to try to shoehorn it into an existing design.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-10-2009
[eluser]Tim Stackhouse[/eluser]
That's just what I'm doing, however I was still having issues with DX it was related to the captcha system. I'm trying Redux and if that doesn't work out I'm just gonna say screw it and build my own.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-10-2009
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Other than frameworks, and things I don't understand (such as MPTT), I tend to write my own code for just about everything. That way it works exactly the way I want it to, as opposed to pre-rolled generic libraries that have to accommodate a much broader range of usage.
I should also point out that this is a very time consuming process, and should probably be avoided if you're working on a time scale. But for personal projects, I love reinventing the wheel so I can have chrome spokes.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-10-2009
[eluser]Tim Stackhouse[/eluser]
It's an interesting idea, I've got redux working mostly, but it's still giving me some oh-so-lovely errors, like reporting an error that occurred on registering, but nothing shows up in the logs and there isn't anything more descriptive. I think I'll just purge my db, start fresh again and roll my owl, as the way I have my classes laid out, I need to have my User class inherit from a person class anyway.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-10-2009
[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
I wouldn't recommend any. Roll your own.
Authentication/Authroization Plugins? - El Forum - 04-10-2009
[eluser]Tim Stackhouse[/eluser]
That's what I'm going to do. I've given up on libraries so I'm just going to roll my own. It'll fit into the system better and it'll be good to learn more about working with CI. Next step is devising my 11+ table data structure in proper 3rd normal form.