In the digital age, most successful businesses already know that properly used SEO practices on their website will reap rewards that far exceed its cost. While you may have already known this, did you know that using SEO before…
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How to Use SEO to Develop a Better Website
Posted on: January 12, 2012 at 3:47 pm by mulrich
Guidelines for Page-Specific SEO Practices and Accessibility
Posted on: November 23, 2011 at 5:13 pm by cbarnes
In the next several articles, we hope to create an open guideline that all our SEO practitioners use in conjunction with their marketing or PR strategies. This page lays out the bare minimum we believe to be…
Read moreGigya Social Login and Yii Authentication — userIdentity & authenticateSocial()
Posted on: November 15, 2011 at 7:58 pm by cbarnes
As we’ve already stepped through using the userIdentity Component in Yii durring many of the preceding posts, we will use a custom method for this social login project, authenticateSocial(). As Yii uses the userIdentity component for all the authentication logic…
Read moreGigya Social Login and Yii Authentication — the social Login Action
Posted on: November 3, 2011 at 10:36 pm by cbarnes
Let me state at the outset that there is no default social login action included in the Yii userIdentity, and this guide does not represent the only conceivable way to do this with Yii framework. The way that seemed best…
Read moreGigya Social Login and Yii Authentication — Social Login
Posted on: October 28, 2011 at 9:37 pm by cbarnes
Now comes the fun part. The ability to login socially is limited by what Gigya offers. So, a little explanation about what Gigya allows and requires. Also, what variables we will need to send to Gigya and what variables we…
Read moreGigya Social Login with Yii Framework Authentication — Gigya Set Up
Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by cbarnes
To save a bit of time for you, I want go through basics of setting up the Gigya API for social login. It is not hard.
You get a domain key from Gigya, then install a javascript-based widget on
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Read moreGigya Social Login with Yii Framework Authentication — Gigya Users and Our Users (the basics)
Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by cbarnes
The first thing to realize when coding an application that will use the Gigya web service (or any web service) is that we have to engineer our apps to be flexible to deal with any changes that could happen. Web…
Read moreGigya Social Login and Yii Authentication — UserIdentity Component
Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by cbarnes
The way in which I set up the authentication system does not stray far from many of the concerns of the UserIdentity module in the official Yii framework documentation. I have (for now) unsalted our user accounts, leaving a one-hash…
Read moreCustom and Secure Authentication with Yii Framework – Part5
Posted on: October 14, 2011 at 3:41 pm by cbarnes
Final Thoughts Concerning Security of Our Yii Apps
I know there are developers busting out of their cargo pants and skinny jeans at my proposition of not salting the password process. My opinion is that the constraints of the application…
Read moreCustom and Secure Authentication with Yii Framework – Part4
Posted on: October 14, 2011 at 3:40 pm by cbarnes
Manually Editing Data Models and Yii Components
Open model/User.php and find the rules() method. This function runs a validation on our user input, once again another impressive security feature of “sanitizing data” that Yii handles for us automatically. By default,…
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