I’ve been reworking the ModelForm class for ZF a bit. Earlier this year, I discussed porting it to use Zend_Db_Table with Matthew Weier O’Phinney, for using it with Zend Framework. I initially had done some checking on Zend_Db_Table, and some small code changes to modify the class to use it instead of Doctrine, but I ran into some issues. Now, …
Sharing authentication over multiple sites / Single sign-on
At The Group, we’re developing some web applications that needed to use the same user database. The applications were originally being developed with separate login for each, but I decided it would be better to share the login code across them. I investigated some ways to achieve sharing a single login page over all these applications: A shared login library …
More on extensible authentication/access control
Two weeks ago, I mentioned an easy way to create easily changeable ways for authenticating users. Continuing on that, I’ve been implementing ways to control user roles and user access for specific pages and modules in my CMS. Naturally, those features too are designed to be easily modifiable. An ACL factory A RoleProvider singleton You might not know what those …
Implementing swappable authentication methods
I’ve mentioned a CMS I’m working on in a couple of occaions. Lately, I’ve been tinkering with the user authentication part of it, and stumbled upon a small obstacle: How to make it easy to change authentication methods? Most of the time you probably would like to use a database to store your users, but at work, I had to …
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