Custom Authentication in eZ 3.7

Monday 17 July 2006 2:18:26 pm

You have to write you own authentication handler:

1. Edit [eZ publish root dir]/settings/site.ini

2. Look for 'LoginHandler[]' and change the value 'standard' to 'soap'

3. go to [eZ publish root dir]/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezuser/

4. create a file there 'ezsoapuser.php'

5. Start with:

class eZSOAPUser extends eZUser
{

    function eZSOAPUser()
    {
    }

    function &loginUser( $login, $password, $authenticationMatch = false )
    {
         // your custom code to access the web service
    }

}

6. make sure that your custom loginUser function returns an 'eZUser'. That also means that the user has to exist in your eZ publish installation (and not only exists for the web service you're accessing)

7. Once it is working for you I suggest that you move your code to an eZ extension. That is much more cleaner.

Hope that gives you an idea how to solve your problem. Post a reply in case you would need more help,

regards

http://www.mugo.ca
Mugo Web, eZ Partner in Vancouver, Canada

Friday 12 October 2007 4:34:53 am

Hello,

I am planning to do the same, a SOAP authentication. But what do you mean by: The user hast to exist in your ezP installation.

I am planning to do this in order not to have a second DB with all my existing customers.

Thanks