Leveraging Zend_Auth for building your authentication
In a series of posts, I will address the issue of authentication and authorization of users into your application. When you build a website with any form of back office, you will need to grant users access to the back office (authentication), and determine what actions they are allowed to take (authorization). The Zend Framework has two tools just for that job: Zend_Auth and Zend_ACL. In this first part, I will build a custom User class, that will allow the programmer to perform a simple authentication of a user. This User class will be integrated into a so called “code base” or “framework” that you can use for your own applications. As of this moment, that framework doesn’t exist yet. I will gradually build it as my blog posts are added. Please look for the tag “codebase” if you want all of these posts.
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