I had to write a small tool to automate releasing certain GitHub repositories, and for that to authenticate I had to connect to GitHub API. The integration wasn’t super-easy as…I had to write a small tool to automate releasing certain…
Tag: Authentication
ACL – Access Control Lists – revised
With a focus on CakePHP application development. Authentication vs Authorization Those two are often confused. So here a little preface: Authentication always comes first. It is about whether you are…With a focus on CakePHP application development. Authentication vs Authorization Those…
Auth – inline authorization the easy way
I wrote a wrapper class to make inline authorization easier. Often times you want to check on certain roles inside an action or view and depending on the result display…I wrote a wrapper class to make inline authorization easier. Often…
More persistent sessions in Cake2.x
This has been an issue for me way too long. I always hated the fact that users are logged out almost every few hours. Compared to other sites on the…This has been an issue for me way too long. I…
TinyAuth – The fastest and easiest authorization for CakePHP
Note: This is for CakePHP 2.x, for 3.x please see the bottom of the article. The CakePHP built in row based CRUD auth is way too powerful and way too…Note: This is for CakePHP 2.x, for 3.x please see the…