NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::SimpleAuth - Simple authentication for Catalyst

SYNOPSIS

  # in your Catalyst application:
  use Catalyst qw(SimpleAuth);
  
  __PACKAGE__->config(
      simpleauth => { class => 'Users' },
  );
  
  # in your sign up code
  
  unless( $c->sign_up(
            {   username => $email,
                password => $password,
            }
        ) ) {
        # sign up failed, user exists
  }
  my $user = $c->user;
  ...

  # in your sign in code
  
  my $user = $c->user; 
  if ($c->sign_in(
          {   username => $email,
              password => $password,
          }
      )
      )
  {
      my $user = $c->user;
      ...
  } else {
      # sign in failed
  }

  # in your sign out code

  $c->sign_out;

  

DESCRIPTION

This module is a replacement module for Catalyst::Authentication::* which does one thing and does it well. This module assumes that you have a model for the users you wish to authenticate - this will typically be a DBIx::Class module.

You set the name of the model to authenticate in the configuration as above. 'sign_up' creates the instance for you. 'sign_in' signs a person in, 'sign_out' signs a person out. You can access the user object either as $c->user in the code or as the 'user' variable in the stash.

This module saves SHA1 digests of the passwords instead of the password.

The model will generally have a database structure along the lines of:

  CREATE TABLE `users` (
    `username` text NOT NULL,
    `password` char(40) NOT NULL,
    `first_name` text,
    `last_name` text
  );

Note that the password will be 40 characters long.

This module requires either Catalyst::Plugin::Session or Catalyst::Plugin::CookiedSession.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008-9, Leon Brocard

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.