For CI 3.1.6: Seeking very simple login system, no DB, good example code
I'm converting a legacy site to CI... It has an old, creaky, unreliable generic php login system, with "remember me". Which I'd like to replace with a new, reliable, CI-integrated, package also with "remember me".
The site will never have more than about 5 registered users. The access restriction applicable to each page: none (public) -- restricted -- webmaster-only. Each registered user has one of two privilege levels.
For simplicity and portability I'd like to do this without a database. (For my minimal requirements a DB seems like huge overkill.) Also, don't need a registration system -- I can maintain the credentials manually. They don't change very often.
I've found about two dozen auth bolt-ons for CI, but almost all of them require a DB. Some of the products don't seem very current, which is a bit worrying. CI 4 is on the horizon...
And: most of the docs I've found are pretty abstract -- I can't actually see how the auth system is used in concrete terms. (Yeah, my CI skills are not the greatest.) As I'm fully loaded with other details of conversion -- not to mention a serious back-up in the incoming content stream -- I need a simple, representative implementation example to work from.
Fallback: I'll use a DB if I must, as long as the requirements above are met.
TIA
