NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::SimpleAuth - Simple authentication for Catalyst

SYNOPSIS

# in your Catalyst application:
use Catalyst qw(SimpleAuth);

__PACKAGE__->config(
    simpleauth => { class => 'Users' },
);

# in your sign up code

unless( $c->sign_up(
          {   username => $email,
              password => $password,
          }
      ) ) {
      # sign up failed, user exists
}
my $user = $c->user;
...

# in your sign in code

my $user = $c->user; 
if ($c->sign_in(
        {   username => $email,
            password => $password,
        }
    )
    )
{
    my $user = $c->user;
    ...
} else {
    # sign in failed
}

# in your sign out code

$c->sign_out;

DESCRIPTION

This module is a replacement module for Catalyst::Authentication::* which does one thing and does it well. This module assumes that you have a model for the users you wish to authenticate - this will typically be a DBIx::Class module.

You set the name of the model to authenticate in the configuration as above. 'sign_up' creates the instance for you. 'sign_in' signs a person in, 'sign_out' signs a person out. You can access the user object either as $c->user in the code or as the 'user' variable in the stash.

This module saves SHA1 digests of the passwords instead of the password.

The model will generally have a database structure along the lines of:

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `username` text NOT NULL,
  `password` char(40) NOT NULL,
  `first_name` text,
  `last_name` text
);

Note that the password will be 40 characters long.

This module requires either Catalyst::Plugin::Session or Catalyst::Plugin::CookiedSession.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008-9, Leon Brocard

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.