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

[Walter A. B. I. <wab...@3g...>]

Quoting Erich Enke <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
----aaahhh ok.  I see the issue.  If you look at the theme.php output it =
has the
css defined for the TextCSSNav.  the main class '.textnav' has a height: =
16px;
setting, which is most likely what is breaking the layout in your page.  =
The
browser doesn't seem to make the outer TD stretch to allow this to fit.  =
 Try
uncommenting the css style in main.css for .menublock   make the height:2=
1px;
uncommented.  See if that helps some.  This is just a css/html issue. =20

You can customize the css styles for any of the phphtmllib widgets withou=
t
hacking the widget's source.  Check out the code in the phphtmllib/css di=
r. =20


> 2) One of the more difficult things with setting up a complete site
> solution, at least for beginners, seems to be getting a user registrati=
on
> and login system going.  I would love to see widgets in phphtmllib hand=
le
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
----yah this might be helpfull, but that gets phphtmllib into the realm o=
f a
framework, instead of just an html library.  What password checking algor=
ithm
would one use?  Some use myslq's built in password(), others would use an=
 md5,
others could use blowfish, etc. etc.  This is besides the fact that other=
s might
want to use a flat file for storing account info.  This widget would have=
 to
abstract the 'db' which is out of the scope of phphtmllib.  I guess it co=
uld
create an interface which a user would be forced to override to provide t=
he
checking mechanism...hmm.  food for thought at least.


> Only problem is, I'm having trouble figuring out how to implement it.=20
> 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 els=
e
> I haven't considered?
-----when someone submits the login form, you do all of the checking for
authentication.  Once authenticated, then you start the session.  This al=
l
happens during the processing of the form, which happens before render() =
time
and hence before any html output.

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> --epte
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