Re: Auth and Registry

On Friday 29 April 2005 2:09, Albert Lash wrote:
> Not really, I just read the docs and the prepend example. Let's start real
> easy. I just want to manually login a user using prepend.php and give them
> some roles, so that I can access my sitemap gates and role based interface
> elements. I'll add the _registry items for the interface, but what do I
> need to do to set the roles?
>
> $roles=Array('admin','root','user');
> Auth::registerUser($roles);

If you want. How you do this is up to you.  If you just want to use a 
registered/not registerd system, then you have 1 role - registered for all 
your private gates.    How you get roles is dependent of your auth system. In 
PSA you should be able to export the roles of a newly registered user.

> ??
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Joshua wrote:
> > Well the hooks that are in now let you use an external auth system - the
> > prepend file has examples. So whatever auth system you use (one user, one
> > password all the way to full blown roles) fits right in. Basically all nx
> > wants is an array of roles - if you dont use roles then it can just be
> > groups, whatever - nx calls them roles/actions but what they actually are
> > in you auth system is irrelevant.   You can also add whatever criterias
> > in the registry as you need using the provided function
> > (Auth::setSessiondata()) for your own use - say you need to add things
> > like user's gender or whatever and keep it all under the same place as
> > the rest.
> >
> > So your prepend file should define the login, auth, etc.. methods (can be
> > functions or callable object/methods) that will return the needed data.  
> > You
> >
> > make sense?
> >
> > On Friday 29 April 2005 1:55, Albert Lash wrote:
> > > Hi Joshua,
> > >
> > > I'm going to work on the auth system for the PHP5 Nx. Do you have any
> > > input? I remember you had some ideas about the registry, and it appears
> > > that you've developed a significant amount of code surrounding those
> > > ideas.
> > >
> > > I'm going to compare the old with the new, as well as PSA 4.x, and try
> > > to come up with the best and easiest solution. Your ideas about an
> > > auth-independent framework will be integrated as well, of course.
> > >
> > > Alby