Thanks to everyone who's tried to help me with this. I think I'm on the right track now. Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> To: "Becoming Digital" <subs@becomingdigital.com> Cc: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, 10 June, 2003 23:39 Subject: Re: Re: Authentication Classes Hello, On 06/11/2003 12:33 AM, Becoming Digital wrote: >>What you may want to do is to go in the pages of each of the classes >>that from the descriptions seem to do what you want. Then you can check >>which are the most popular checking their downloads ranking in their pages. > > > That's not a bad idea. I was, admittedly, hoping to avoid that, but it was not > out of laziness. > > I'm trying to develop a model of what makes a "good" user authentication system. > Obviously, the foundation of any good system is successfully identifying users, > but what differentiates one system from another? I think I'm on my own here, > but the quest must go on! ;) I have not tried the packages to give an opinion, but this package seems to do what you want and is the top downloaded of those in the same category: Class: phpSecurityAdmin http://www.phpclasses.org/phpsecurityadmin -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php