Re: [phplib] login page help From: Cresta Johnson (cjohnson <email protected>)
Date: 06/12/01

Sorry, this may be a really lame question (I'm kind of a newbie with OO
classes). When I look at the auth class (where the auth_preauth function is
defined, it doesn't seem to do anything other than return false - which
would invoke the login form, right?). Do I need to define my own
auth_preauth function in a sub class?

I'm worried that I'm being to confusing about what I want to accomplish. I
am able to use phplib authentication just fine to protect the pages that I
want to protect. When trying to access a protected page, the login page is
invoked and then (if authenticated) the protected page is displayed. But I
was hoping to also add a little login box to my index page (which is NOT
protected & I don't want the login page to be called) which would allow the
user (if they wanted to - not a requirement) to login directly from the
index page & redirect him to the protected area. What I can't seem to do is
save the login, password info that they type in at the index page without
requiring them to login.

Again, I'm really sorry - I might not be understanding phplib completely.
But I've been working on this for two weeks and my deadline is looming!

Thanks for your help!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Swensen" <swensenj <email protected>>
To: "Cresta Johnson" <cjohnson <email protected>>; <phplib <email protected>>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [phplib] login page help

> This functionality is already built into PHPLib. Use the auth_preauth
> method in your subclass of Auth. Auth_preauth always gets called first
and
> returns either a uid, in which your user is authorized and your
application
> goes on it's merry way. Or it returns false, in which the regular
> authorization takes place, by bringing up you login page, etc...
>
> So, you can do anything it the auth_preauth method to authorize the user.
> Maybe you have a user id/password on your index page and auth_preauth
check
> for the existence of those variables and uses them to do the
authorization.
> If they don't exist returns false.
> --
> Jesse Swensen
> swensenj <email protected>
>
> > From: "Cresta Johnson" <cjohnson <email protected>>
> > Organization: Dzign Studio
> > Reply-To: "Cresta Johnson" <cjohnson <email protected>>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:48:33 -0600
> > To: <phplib <email protected>>
> > Subject: [phplib] login page help
> >
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I was wondering if it was possible to have a login page that wasn't
> > protected by the phplib auth/perm functions? What I want to do is have a
> > "quick" login button on the index page of my site (which wouldn't be
> > protected) and after verifying the login information would redirect the
user
> > to another page that is protected by the phplib auth/perm functions.
What
> > I've tried to do so far is to send the user & password (via html
> > form)directly to the page (that's protected) & I've also tried to send
the
> > information to another php script that processes the information & then
> > redirects to the protected page. Either way, I am still having the
> > login.ihtml page invoked. Is there anyone that's done this before and
has a
> > code sample that I can look at?
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> >
> > Cresta
> >
> >
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