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I recently created a project called Yii-App on GitHub to kickstart my development of smaller Yii applications. The main goal of the project is to provide a ready-to-use application template that includes my bootstrap extension and many other useful extensions. After reading this article you will be able to use this project as a starting point for all of your Yii projects.

The Portable PHP password hashing framework allows advanced password hashing offering increased security over simple MD5- or SHA1-hashed passwords. phpass is already in use in some larger projects such as WordPress (since v2.5), Drupal 7 and phpBB 3.

In this cookbook I will attempt to explain how to use the lightweight version of Role-Based Access Control using a php file. This version does not use database but a php file and is controlled by CPhpAuthManager class.

warning: While this security guide tries to be quite complete, is not exhaustive. If security matters for you, you ought to check several other references.

If you need simple Role based access control without the long RBAC process then this article is just for you. Lets jump to the point.

There Is Now A cpasswordhelper Class In system.utils at GitHub that provides an API to simplify the use of crypt() for password storage. While this wiki article remains valid, it will in due course be rewritten to refer to the new class as well as explain how it works.

Yii does not have an LDAP class itself, but its very easy to implement LDAP in the stock UserIdentity class.

I would like to provide you a quick tip on how to implement user level access to your Yii applications.

After adding proper form to the main layout, like:

In this mini howto I would like to show how to add a required captcha field in the login form, after a defined number of unsuccessfull attempts. To do this, I will use the blog demo that you have in default Yii download package (path/to/yii/demos/blog).