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 …
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Gigya Social Login and Yii Authentication — UserIdentity Component
Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by admin
Custom and Secure Authentication with Yii Framework – Part5
Posted on: October 14, 2011 at 3:41 pm by admin
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 admin
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, …
Read moreCustom and Secure Authentication with Yii Framework – Part3
Posted on: October 14, 2011 at 3:38 pm by admin
Building the Create Action View and Logic for Custom Authentication in Yii
Yii has given us everything we need with the blog demo to build a extremely secure authentication system, provided we use all of it. This is the beauty …
Read moreIntegrate Joomla Modules into Magento
Posted on: October 11, 2011 at 5:52 pm by admin
There’s a number of expensive and complicated products to do this, but this way is very simple & straightforward for people familiar with Joomla templates and how they work. This method requires very little Magento knowledge, but it does help …
Read moreCustom and Secure Authentication with Yii Framework – Part2
Posted on: October 9, 2011 at 3:41 am by admin
Using Yii’s Inherent Security
By perusing the blog demo that ships with a standard Yii 1.1 install, one will see that the authentication system takes those best practices a step further. To extend our fortress analogy a bit further, the …
Custom and Secure Authentication with Yii Framework – Part1
Posted on: October 9, 2011 at 3:39 am by admin
The Yii Framework has, by default, an authentication system that uses best practice security. One thing that the authentication system could use is password encryption for both our application and users’ security (in the event our user database table is …
Read moreMagento News- Ebay, Inc. will be Acquiring Magento
Posted on: September 8, 2011 at 7:02 pm by admin
Joomla vs. WordPress
Posted on: May 28, 2011 at 8:50 pm by admin
Need to Choose the Best Open Source CMS for your Business?
Content Management Systems enable webmasters to control, update and organize web pages and the data that they contain. Many businesses endlessly search for web based applications that specifically meet …
Read moreUpcoming Magento Events for May
Posted on: May 20, 2011 at 6:02 pm by mulrich
Every month Magento releases a calendar of its future eCommerce Forums, live events and webinars for the following month. Magic Logix is pleased to provide this listing to our clients and is proud to be a Community Partner with Magento.…
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