[beesho]

I am trying to create a mobile end client for my Yii application. I researched about that and I knew that I should integrate REST API first, and that is what I did.
Now, am looking for a way to use javascript(or any better way) to authenticate the user and interact with the application, but I failed to do that so far..
Any help in the matter is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Luke Jurgs]

Hi Beesho,

What have you tried so far? I use backbone myself and I find that user authentication has no established best practice. I myself deviate from true REST and use session cookies to track authentication. I then set a 401 Unauthorized header and return a JSON string that tells my backbone client that it needs to route to the login page.

The login page asks for a username and password that is then transmitted as an update "put" and my rest controller for account tells the application if it was successful or not with a 200 or 406 header, then I route back to where the user first needed authentication to proceed.

There's always a better way, I'm a bit of a backbone novice so I'm always looking for better ways.

beesho, on 01 February 2013 - 07:19 PM, said:

I am trying to create a mobile end client for my Yii application. I researched about that and I knew that I should integrate REST API first, and that is what I did.
Now, am looking for a way to use javascript(or any better way) to authenticate the user and interact with the application, but I failed to do that so far..
Any help in the matter is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.