Web Site User Authentication: The Answer To A Growing Concearn
Author: Michael Milson
AuthenticationPal is a revolutionary authentication script which uses PHP and MySQL for lightning fast processing. AuthenticationPal comes with an admin interface where webmasters and administrators can create new user accounts, new user groups, activate/inactivate groups or individual accounts, set user level, etc. This may be used to protect files for member-only areas. AuthenticationPal uses a custom class to handle the bulk of insertion, updates, and deletion of data. This class can also be used for other applications which needs user authentication.
AuthenticationPal is also fully compatible with automated database updates using PayPal's IPN feature and subscription management feature to automatically generate new usernames and passwords (passwords are hashed with the crypt() method) PayPal's IPN feature allows passwords and usernames along with other information such as name address subscription level or group etc to be automatically entered into a database so people can have immediate access to your members only section on successful completion of subscription signup and payment.
AuthenticationPal is a based on a freeware script and was completely Re-Written to be integrated with PayPal and the IPN functions for subscription password management.
