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

Hi Bastien,

That is indeed getting very close to what i was looking for. Thanks a lot!

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Bastien <[email protected]> wrote:
> Check out
> http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2011/09/ninjauth-social-integration-php from
> Phil sturgeon.
>
> Bastien Koert
>
> On 2013-04-02, at 3:41 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> To be honest, that's also not what i'm looking for, but might be a
> good starting point to extend on. Depends on how you made it :) I cant
> promise that i'ill be working on it. I might be for some future
> project in my company but it might very well not happen as well.
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Andy McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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>
> 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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