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<h1>Authentication and Authorization</h1>

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Before we set off to implement the user pages, we need to do some work to enable <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/demos/quickstart/index.php?page=Advanced.Auth">authentication and authorization</a>.

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We add two new modules to the application configuration as follows:

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<modules>

    ...TDataSourceConfig and TActiveRecordConfig modules...

    <module id="auth"

      class="System.Security.TAuthManager"

      UserManager="users"

      LoginPage="users.LoginUser" />

    <module id="users"

      class="System.Security.TDbUserManager"

      UserClass="Application.BlogUser" />

</modules>

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The <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/docs/classdoc/TAuthManager">TAuthManager</a> module manages the whole authentication and authorization workflow. It uses the <tt>users</tt> module as its user manager (see below). By specifying the <tt>LoginPage</tt> property, we inform the auth manager to redirect user's browser to the <tt>LoginUser</tt> page when an authorization fails. We will describe how to create <tt>LoginUser</tt> in the next subsection.

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The <tt>user</tt> module is of class <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/docs/classdoc/TDbUserManager">TDbUserManager</a> which is responsible to verify the validity of a user and keep basic user data in the PHP session. The <tt>UserClass</tt> property is initialized as <tt>Application.BlogUser</tt>, which indicates the user manager would look for a <tt>BlogUser</tt> class under the directory <tt>protected</tt> (remember the alias <tt>Application</tt> refers to the <tt>protected</tt> directory) and use it to keep user's session data.

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As we will see in later sections, in controls and pages, we can use <tt>$this->User</tt> to obtain the <tt>BlogUser</tt> object which contains the information of the user currently accessing the system.

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Below is the implementation detail of <tt>BlogUser</tt>. Notice <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/demos/quickstart/index.php?page=Database.ActiveRecord">Active Record</a> is used to perform DB query. For example, we use <tt>UserRecord::finder()->findByPk($username)</tt> to look for the primary key specified by <tt>$username</tt> in the <tt>users</tt> table.

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// Include TDbUserManager.php file which defines TDbUser

Prado::using('System.Security.TDbUserManager');

/**

 * BlogUser Class.

 * BlogUser represents the user data that needs to be kept in session.

 * Default implementation keeps username and role information.

 */

class BlogUser extends TDbUser

{

    /**

     * Creates a BlogUser object based on the specified username.

     * This method is required by TDbUser. It checks the database

     * to see if the specified username is there. If so, a BlogUser

     * object is created and initialized.

     * @param string the specified username

     * @return BlogUser the user object, null if username is invalid.

     */

    public function createUser($username)

    {

        // use UserRecord Active Record to look for the specified username

        $userRecord=UserRecord::finder()->findByPk($username);

        if($userRecord instanceof UserRecord) // if found

        {

            $user=new BlogUser($this->Manager);

            $user->Name=$username;  // set username

            $user->Roles=($userRecord->role==1?'admin':'user'); // set role

            $user->IsGuest=false;   // the user is not a guest

            return $user;

        }

        else

            return null;

    }

    /**

     * Checks if the specified (username, password) is valid.

     * This method is required by TDbUser.

     * @param string username

     * @param string password

     * @return boolean whether the username and password are valid.

     */

    public function validateUser($username,$password)

    {

        // use UserRecord Active Record to look for the (username, password) pair.

        return UserRecord::finder()->findBy_username_AND_password($username,$password)!==null;

    }

    /**

     * @return boolean whether this user is an administrator.

     */

    public function getIsAdmin()

    {

        return $this->isInRole('admin');

    }

}

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