[Solar-talk] Verifying Login Status

[Paul M Jones]

On Feb 7, 2008, at 09:30 , Sean Montague wrote:

> Just as a follow up, I modified my Vendor_App_Base to look like this:
>
>       function _setup() {
>           // Register a Solar_Sql object if not already
>           if (! Solar_Registry::exists('sql')) {
>               Solar_Registry::set('sql', Solar::factory('Solar_Sql'));
>           }
>                     // Register a Solar_User object if not already.
>           // This will trigger the authentication process.
>           if (! Solar_Registry::exists('user')) {
>               Solar_Registry::set('user',  
> Solar::factory('Solar_User'));
>           }
>                     $auth = Solar::factory('Solar_Auth');
>           $auth->start();
>           Solar_Registry::set('auth', $auth);
>           if (Solar_Registry::get('auth')->isValid()) {
>               // user is logged in
>           } else {
>               // user is *not* logged in
>               $uri = Solar::factory('Solar_Uri');
>               if($uri->path[0] != 'Login') {
>                   ob_start();
>                   header("Location: http://solartutorial/Login");
>                   ob_end_flush();
>                   exit;
>               }
>           }
>       }
>
> and it works great. Thanks!

I think we can do better even than that.  Instead of ...

       $auth = Solar::factory('Solar_Auth');
       $auth->start();
       Solar_Registry::set('auth', $auth);
       if (Solar_Registry::get('auth')->isValid()) {
           // user is logged in
       } else {
           // user is *not* logged in

... you should be able to do this:

     $user = Solar_Registry::get('user');
     if ($user->auth->isValid()) {
         // user is logged in
     } else {
         // user is not logged in

First, the Solar_User class keeps a Solar_Auth object as a public  
property.  Second, when Solar_User is instantiated (e.g., via  
Solar::factory()), it calls $this->auth->start() for you  
automatically.  Take a look at the Solar_User::__construct() method  
for more information.

Welcome aboard!  :-)


-- pmj