User authentication

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi all,

I have just started to learn Yii framework. I need to implement user authentication and authorization. I was passing through the tutorial and I saw you need to define identity class. I didn’t clear understood that tutorial. Where should that defined class reside? Please can someone assist me on this or point me to a more details tutorial about user authentication.

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Create a new skeleton application with yiic webapp command, then look for the following files:

protected/components/UserIdentity.php

protected/models/LoginForm.php

protected/controllers/SiteController.php - the actionLogin() method

Read the code and comments carefully, and, after understandig how they work and interact with each other, you can easily customize authentication by modifying these files.

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Thank you phtamas,

You have given me a very good start, hope now I can carry on. Will come back in case of any problem.