Re: [phpesp-dev] Proposed changes.

[Christopher Z. <zo...@mu...>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:49:14PM -0500, Matthew Gregg wrote:
> I've fielded several problems lately on #phpESP relating to the
> mysql_populate.sql script.  It appears it is failing on mySQL vs 4 and
> above.
> The fix looks to be simply changing all:
> NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
> to:
> NOT NULL,
> 
> See bug #: 890830
> 
> I want to commit these changes to CVS, any commments?

Nope. Looks fine. :) 

> 
> Also, I've had a feature request tagged to me for a while to implement
> LDAP respondent accounts.  I have this implemented in a way that works
> for us(MUSC), but it's done in a way that would allow for other
> authentication methods to easily be used.  Instead of extending the
> account/authentication functionality inside ESP, I choose to implement
> the concept of a "valid URI" that a survey can be called from.  Then
> from Apache you can use any authentication method it supports(which is
> huge) to limit access to the Survey.
> 
> For example:
> - The directory .../phpESP/public/access-ldap/ exists
> 
> - The valid URI for a survey is access-ldap
> 
> - Apache is configure as:
> <Location /access-ldap/>
>   AuthName "(LDAP ID and Password)"
>   AuthType Basic
>   AuthLDAP  "some ldap config here"
>   require valid-user
> </Location>
> 
> - The survey is activated.
> 
> - It is accessed by the normal "/public/survey.php?name=blah" url and
> access is denied.
> 
> - It is accessed by the "secured" URL
> "/public/access-ldap/survey.php?name=blah", a "Basic Auth" login is
> prompted by Apache.  If the user has a valid account, they can access
> the survey.
> 
> Do you guys like this approach?  Hope I managed to explain it well
> enough.  If so, I'll clean it up and send out a patch that against CVS
> for testing.  If not, I'll keep it as a local extension.  I'll take no
> response as a "go a head and do it" (-:
> 

I give it a +1 You should go ahead and do it. 

> 
> -- 
> mcg
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