Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP based authentication library?

I started building one at my last job, though it was part of a framework I
was developing.  I knew I was going to need to authenticate against both
LDAP and old-fashioned database username/md5-password columns.  (Ah, legacy
user databases.)

If it would be useful, I could dig out what I had and try to make it into a
stand-alone set of functions, but I never got further than those two
options.  Basically there was a script that took in a username and password
from a web form, then looked at a config file to decide which set of the
sub-functions to use.  For a DB, it checked to see if the username and
hashed password matched a row in the database;  for LDAP, it did some
re-encoding to handle the weird encrypt that our OpenLDAP server used, then
ran through the process of checking to see if the user actually had that as
their password.

Like I said, let me know if anyone wants to see it... I'm unemployed right
now, and a project to work on this week (or next... this week is kind of
busy) might be a good thing.

-Andy McKenzie


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Sorin Badea <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> > I think a simple Google search would be faster. Anyway, an unified way
> for
> > 3rd party authentication doesn't exist from my knowledge, but for Persona
> > you could use the sample from mozilla github account
> > https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-cookbook .
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Sorin!
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I stumbled upon this payment library: http://ci-merchant.org/ which
> >> abstracts the different payment backends away and exposes a new easy
> >> to use interface for the app developer to use. Thus making it very
> >> easy to use different payment providers.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if something like that is also existing for
> >> authentication? For example, in authentication you have quite a few
> >> different ones:
> >> - Mozilla Persona
> >> - openid
> >> - facebook connect
> >> - google (openid?)
> >> - use/pass based authentication (a.k.a. the self made version that
> >> every dev begins with)
> >> - oauth
> >> - twitter connect
> >> - etc...
> >>
> >> Is there such a library in existence? I'm especially looking for one
> >> with mozilla persona implemented.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Mark
> >>
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> >
> >
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> > Badea Sorin (unu.sorin)
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> I couldn't find it on google thus i asked in the one place where - if
> it exists - people would probably know. I find it quite surprising
> that a library like this isn't in existence yet. I can imagine tons of
> sites would certainly benefit from having one generic interface to
> use.
>
> Anyway, thank you for your pointer and reply. If you (or anyone else)
> finds a lib for this, please don't hesitate to post it in here. :)
>
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