Description:

Perm_LiveUser is a set of classes for dealing with user authentication
and permission management. Basically, there are three main elements
that make up this package:
- The LoginManager,
- The Auth containers,
- The Perm containers.

The LoginManager class takes care of the login process and can be
configured to use a certain permission container and one or more
different auth containers. That means, you can have your users' data
scattered amongst many data containers and have the LoginManager try
each defined container until the user is found. For example, you can
have all website users who can apply for a new account online on the
webserver's local database. Also, you want to enable all your
company's employees to login to the site without the need to create
new accounts for all of them. To achieve that, a second container can
be defined to be used by the LoginManager. You can also define a
permission container of your choice that will manage the rights for
each user. Depending on the container, you can implement any kind of
permission schemes for your application while having one consistent
API. Using different permission and auth containers, it's easily
possible to integrate newly written applications with older ones that
have their own ways of storing permissions and user data. Just make a
new container type and you're ready to go! Currently available are
RDBMS containers using PEAR::DB. More are soon to follow.

In PEAR status of this package is: beta.