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kelSO.B

Background: I'm currently working on porting a fairly complex app to fuel. The app requires frequent querying for the current user's groups. I'd like to extend the Auth package to include a kohana-like check_group() function. Is there a simple way to extend the Auth class, or am I better off just making an auth helper to do this?

daGrevis

Isn't this working?

class My_A11n extends A11n {}

Jelmer Schreuder

@kelSO.B
I'll try and have the docs on extending the Auth drivers ready by thursday for the RC release. The Auth package is considered a "core" package which means you can extend it from you app.
Create a file in fuel/app/classes/auth/group/mygroup.php like this:

<?php

class Auth_Group_MyGroup extends Auth_Group_Driver {

}

Or if you want to use the SimpleGroup driver but add/replace a method in it, create the file in fuel/app/classes/auth/group/simplegroup.php:

class Auth_Group_SimpleGroup extends Auth\Auth_Group_SimpleGroup {

}

But in this case it works the same as replacing a core class you have to register it in the autoloader, that's explained in the docs. @daGrevis
He's talking about the Auth package so I assume he meant Fuel's native Auth and not yours.

huglester

Hello, sorry to bump this post, but thought it would be better for it to have a complete information. so I've created APPPATH classes/auth/login/simpleauth.php the content of this file is as follows:

<?php

class Auth_Login_SimpleAuth extends Auth\Auth_Login_SimpleAuth {

 public function create_user($username, $password, $email, $group = 1, $refered_by = '', $question = '', $answer = '', $notify = 0)
{
    // content here
}

}

My APPPATH.'bootstrap.file has this line: (probably here will be an error..)

 'Auth' => APPPATH.'classes/auth/login/simpleauth.php',

and now I get the error like this: ErrorException [ Error ]: Class 'Auth\Auth_Login_SimpleAuth' not found [url http://d.pr/DALj ] Maybe someone can point me on what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

kelSO.B

Thanks Jelmer, that's nice and straightforward. You mentioned that this works because Auth is a "core" package. Does this mean it won't work for 3rd-party packages?

kelSO.B

You're saying Auth should point to the simpleauth login driver. I'll try to expand in the morning, but the class name should match the file you're pointing to.

Jelmer Schreuder

How it works always depends on how it was implemented. Auth being a "core" package in this way means you can extend a driver in the original namespace to the global namespace under the same name in a way that it'll be used by the original sibling classes as well. Something that's not possible when you don't register the package as a "core" extension.
In general it will always be possible to replace classes from packages or to extend them in the global namespace, but to do it in a way that the original class is still accessable and the sibling classes will use your extension it needs to work like I described for the core extensions.

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