Liveuser

I was reminded by maxi_million in the comments on one of my previous LiveUser tutorial entries that I never completed the promised third entry in that series. After the initial procrastination wore off and I initially turned my mind to writing this piece, my main project using LiveUser ended up being converted (for various reasons) into a drupal site, so my further use of the library has been quite minimal. But I do have a little code sitting around, so will try and draw together a few notes on how I was using Liveuser. ...

It’s taking me a while to get to my next installment on LiveUser but in the meantime, readers may want to check out the updated documentation that Lukas published yesterday. It’s not yet a comprehensive introduction/guide to the package, but gathering together a lot of the available information is a huge step forward.

UPDATE (Aug 9th ‘05): Thanks to feedback from Lukas Smith and Laurens Nienhaus I’ve made some updates which show better ways to get at some properties. Having described in my ‘Configuring LiveUser’ entry how to configure and instantiate LiveUser it’s now time to talk about how we start connecting together our login system with more sophisticated permissions management. This time around we’re going to be making use of the LiveUser_Admin module, which can be instantiated using the same configuration array as LiveUser, with: ...

For a current (PHP) project I need a highly flexible authentication and permissions management system. Having heard plenty of mentions on the various PEAR lists I decided to try out LiveUser, which seems to currently be the most comprehensive such system for PHP. It’s a large codebase that seems to cover most of the necessary permutations and includes a number of prominent coders amongst its developers. What I hadn’t taken into account, of course, was the lack of documentation. I spent quite a while trawling through their wiki and googling before concluding that the best way to work LiveUser out would be to work through the code piece by piece. And since that’s a long, slow process it seemed worth documenting here. I’m going to do that step by step, starting today with configuration and instantiation. ...