Wiki articles tagged with "authentication"

By default, the expression Yii::app()->user returns a [CWebUser] [application component](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/basics.application#application-component) which represents the information that are closely related with the current user. Some information can be persistent throughout the current user session. For example, [CWebUser] already comes with a [name|CWebUser::name] property th...

• Validate the user input (see below for details).
• Protect (escape) your application output according to context (see below for a few output types, mostly HTML and SQL).
• Test your application in debug mode.
  Set the constant YII_DEBUG to true (by default, it is defined in index.php) and put alongside error_reporting(E_ALL);. Then errors and warnings will stop the execution an...