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In the modern world of agile startups and silicon valley, the buzz is all about Ruby, Python, and whatever the latest cool programming language or framework to come out is. Older technologies don’t get much love, and PHP especially has a bad reputation. In this post, I’m gonna go over why and how we use PHP as a modern technology, and the various other tools, techniques and development methodologies we employ to run as agilely and elegantly.

via ChartBoost, Running a Modern Startup on PHP.

The first two recipes show us how to set up a basic, yet fully working authentication system. The next three recipes allow our users to log in using different information, have their user details saved after a successful login, and show us how to get this user information.

Setting up a basic authentication system

The first task to be completed when we are in the process of adding authentication to an application is to identify which controllers will need user access. Normally we would make every controller and action protected by default, and then we would specify which areas of our application allow public access.

via CakePHP: Authentication Setup on an Application | Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book and eBook Store.

<?php
  $email = "marc@somehost.com";
  if(filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === FALSE)
  {
    echo $email." is invalid";
  }
  else
  {
    echo $email." is valid";
  }
?>

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