Authentication

^{Also see Modules/Users}

Usage

To sign in, call the static authenticate() method of the User class, passing the authentication provider and any extra parameters needed in the constructor for the provider.

User::authenticate( new PasswordAuthentication($username,$password) );
if (User::isAuthenticated()) {
  echo "You are logged in!";
}

note: it's probably better to have the User class do the authentication based on the returned id of the provider. this allows for a "dry run" in order to check authentication etc.