I know questions like this have been asked numerous times, but not quite this one. Forgive me if I overlooked an obvious duplicate.
In the core of many of my web applications is a self-written user/session management class that in its origins dates back to 2002.
I have decided that it is time for a fundamental re-write or, preferably, the introduction of a ready-made standard library.
My requirements for that library would be:
Object oriented, clean, excellent code
Full session management: Wrapper to session_start() and consorts
Would ideally provide various storage methods (PHP Standard /tmp, database based)
Would ideally be able to connect to different types of user data storage, but mySQL will do fine
Would ideally provide convenient functions for supporting OpenID, but that's a fancy thought, no requirement right now
Methods: Verify session, get user data, get session data, log in user, log out user
Settings: Session lifetime, password encryption
Must be Open Source
And if it's very generic, a user management API or a generic connector to the user management of the surrounding application would be nice:
Create/Update/delete user records
Fetch and modify data of currently logged in user
this is so basic, and so security relevant, that I would expect that there is a standard solution to this, however I don't know of any, and all the big CMSs and blogs seem to be rolling their own.
My two questions:
Do you know such a component as a generic, stand-alone library?
Could somebody with deep knowledge in Zend Framework tell me whether it is possible to use Zend_auth and/or Zend_session standalone, at the core of a big application that has otherwise nothing to do with ZF, without running in to trouble?
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Could somebody with deep knowledge in Zend Framework tell me whether it is possible to use Zend_auth and/or Zend_session standalone, at the core of a big application that has otherwise nothing to do with ZF, without running in to trouble?
I don't have deep knowledge of the Zend Framework, but I have used various components (e.g. Zend_Search) without creating a Zend_Application object or using the MVC framework and I am sure the rest of the library is also designed to be totally modular. Last time I dug though the Zend_Session code, I didn't find any includes outside Zend/Session/. A quick google seemed to confirm this for Zend_Auth, along with the Zend FAQ which states:
Is ZF a component library or a framework?
Simple answer: both. Zend Framework provides all the components required for most web applications in a single distribution. But Zend Framework components are also loosely coupled, making it easy to use just a few components in a web application- even alongside other frameworks! Using this use-at-will architecture, we are implementing features commonly found in more monolithic frameworks. In fact, we are currently working on a tooling component for the 1.8 release that will make it simpler to build applications using ZF components, yet will not sacrifice the use-at-will nature of existing ZF components. It's a testament to the use-at-will architecture of Zend Framework that the tooling component itself can be used standalone.
The only thing I had to do when not using Zend_Search with the MVC framework was add the directory where you installed the Zend Framework to the include path due to the includes in the Zend library. The documentation doesn't document the includes you need when not using the Zend Autoloader, but as everything uses the PEAR class naming scheme, it is easy to deduce from the class names you are using. (so the class Foo_Bar_File would require you to include Foo/Bar/File.php )