Posted on: February 28, 2012 at 5:41 pm by Hassan Bawab
When creating a website, there are initial decisions to be made that can positively or negatively affect a website’s success. While designing and developing your website on time and within budget is one of the most important things you can …
Read more Posted on: January 25, 2012 at 4:34 pm by Hassan Bawab
You had a good 2011. Your online marketing campaign went off without a hitch; you made so many new customers and increased your traffic so quickly that you’re ready to rest on your laurels. You plan to spend a good …
Read more Posted on: November 15, 2011 at 7:58 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 more Posted on: November 3, 2011 at 10:36 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 more Posted on: October 28, 2011 at 9:37 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 more Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 the
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Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 more Posted on: October 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 more Posted on: October 14, 2011 at 3:41 pm by Hassan Bawab
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 more Posted on: October 14, 2011 at 3:40 pm by Hassan Bawab
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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