[Phphtmllib-devel] 1) Test cite for TextCSSNav issue. 2) idea for authentication module

[Erich E. <twi...@fa...>]

1) For the issue of zooming in and out and seeing the TextCSSNav not
respect its containing table's boundaries, see
www.theexecutivecenter.com/testing/mine.php

2) One of the more difficult things with setting up a complete site
solution, at least for beginners, seems to be getting a user registration
and login system going.  I would love to see widgets in phphtmllib handle
login and so on, maybe setting flags for if you want to authenticate
using MYSQL or ADODB or /etc/passwd.  Ideally, one would be able to add
the authentication widget to your page, and it would take care of
starting the session with appropriate session variables and so on.  The
widget would have a method that you could call to see explicitly if the
user is logged in or not.

In addition to a login/authentication widget, there would be an
associated registration widget, in which you could register new users,
and maybe a change password widget.

One benefit to having these predefined widgets is that it would give
users a starting place as to knowing how the forms are all supposed to
work together.  Another benefit is that, well, I would love to be able to
just include the LoginWidget, and have that be that.  Also, such forms
that are commonplace to e-commerce could be done securely once, instead
of having all sorts of insecure hacks running around out there.

Only problem is, I'm having trouble figuring out how to implement it. 
Such as, how does one make sure that the session is started before any
HTML is output once you have authenticated the user?  Add a
this_is_an_authentication_page method to any page-like widget?  Make an
authentication widget that contains any other component which does its
stuff first and then passes control off to its children?  Something else
I haven't considered?

Thanks,
--epte

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