Magic - User System Framework

[Mentor]

Hey peoples,

As a by-product of procrastination I've begun work on an idea I had a while back, which was to develop a simple yet functional User System framework, to rapidly speed up development times when creating a dynamic site.

The system works by including a class within your page, providing an abstracted set of functions you can use to create a fully fledged user system.

Since this is still in the early development stages i wanted to know what features people think it would need.

NOTE: This is not a user system itself, but instead a framework to build user systems with.


So far:
Functions

authenticated()
- true / false as to whether user is logged in

getName()
- return username or guest if not logged in

getAvatar()
- get avatar url of user

login($username,$password)
- log user in

logout()
- log user out

getUserInfo($uid)
- Return array of users details

updateProfileField($field,$newvalue)
- updates profile feild

updateProfile($uid,$avatar,$description)
- Update profile info

createNewUser
- Create new user in the system

removeUser($id)
- remove user from system

changePassword($oldpassword,$newpassword)



Any other important, functions of features wanted. the system works both with flatfiles only or with a MySQL database

[Jaysun]

This is very good and will help a lot of people out, you should go ahead with it.

[iDenning]

Sounds good, go for it.

Cant think of any stuff, maybe a chatbox where you can discuss stuff? idno

[Jacobred]

Yeah, would be a great help as I find Habbosofts useless, firstly you cant intergrate it into your own website with massive coding and secondly more features!

[Blob]

smarty support? im sure you can extend the smarty class to add new functions into it? i dont know, but i think you can.

[Source]

Adding smarty would bloat the hell out of what I think should be a simple library to help build systems.

[Blob]

Adding smarty would bloat the hell out of what I think should be a simple library to help build systems.

no i meant a seperate class for smarty so you could do like

{loggedin="true"}
something
{/loggedin}

[Source]

Oh right, a class to set smarty up for basic usage of the user system. That could be beneficial.

[Mentor]

Smarty definaly looks like it could be a good choice for adding in as i was concidering writeing my own skinning engine :p
Im trying to write Magic so its highly abstracted enogth that the front end is almost completely customisable in how its impleneted. So far to use smarty the only change needed would be to import smarty along with the magic class's at the top of your page, but more direct intergration is definitly somthing to think about.

Anyway, i started creating a test script for it (ugly as hell) but shows how you would interact with the usersystem magic class so far. (i know its badly done but its mainly to demo the interactions and for me to test stuff on the fly)

<?php

//Magic!
include('Magic/userSys.php');
$userSys = new UserSystem('config.php');

//System,
$profile = $_GET['profile'];

?>
<div style='background-color:black;padding:10px;margin:0;color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;'>
<?php

if($userSys->authenticated()){
    echo "Welcome back <a href='?profile=".$userSys->getUID()."'>".$userSys->getName().'</a> - - logout';
}else{
    echo "Please Login";
}

?>
</div>

<div style='float:right;padding:5px;margin:15px;background-color:black;color:white;width:200px;'>
<strong>Users List</strong> <br>
<?php

    $userslist = $userSys->getUserList();
    foreach($userslist as $username => $uid){
        echo "<a href='?profile={$uid}'>{$username}</a><br>";
    }
?>

</div>
<div style='padding:20px;'>
<?php
    $user = $userSys->getUserInfo($profile);
    if($user !==null){
        $profile = $user->getAttributeArray();
        foreach($profile as $att => $val){
            echo $att.' : '.$val.' <br>';
        }
    
    }else{
        echo 'invalid profile';
    }
    

?>
</div>

Produces


Any comments on how the userSys methods work?

[Source]

Havnt seen how the class is written but, wouldn't it make more sense to merge

$userSys->getUID()

and

$userSys->getName()

into something like $userSys->getInfo( 'UID' )/( 'name' ); ?