[pLog-svn] r2177 - in plog/trunk: class/dao class/dao/userdata config

[Reto Hugi]

Oscar,

This is great news! Thanks for picking up this very interesting feature.
I'll certainly have a look at it once in a while. I could use this
feature to integrate properly into one maybe even two PostNuke base
Portals. I'll get back to you when I'm ready to work on this though :)

reto

On 06.06.2005 23:37, oscar at devel.plogworld.net wrote:
> let's keep breaking things... this time, one of the most interesting features of 1.1 (IMHO): pluggable
> user-data backends. The current Users class is now nothing more than a proxy class for the real
> user-data backend class that is doing the dirty job. By default we will create packages using
> plog's own PlogUserDataProvider but users willing to integrate plog with other tools such as phpbb2,
> ldap, mambo or kerberos will be able to easily switch by editing one configuration file.
> 
> Before you ask, the fact that this requires editing one config file is intentional. This is not a
> feature that 98% of the common users will need to mess around with so there's not much point in
> spending too much time making it pretty.
> 
> The idea behind this feature is that plog will be able to use external sources of user data, instead
> of using its own database tables, dynamically (as opposed to synchronizing the user data every day,
> hour or once in a while) Whenever a user is added/removed/updated in the host application, these
> changes will be immediately seen by plog and viceversa.
> 
> This feature does *not* include single login mechanisms or anything like that yet.
> 
> At the code leve, user-data "providers" are classes that extend the BaseUserDataProvider base class and provide all the methods that the original Users class provided. Since all client classes of Users expect a certain interface, this change does not break anything anywhere in the code.
> 
> Please keep in mind that this is a first approach, and a very rough one. Nobody has even started
> working on additional providers so we don't know what difficulties we can find when creating new
> ones... I am planning to take a look at phpbb2 because it should be easy :), but so far the current
> plog user data backend is working just fine.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions...