Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Open ID in PEAR

Sara Golemon in a new post over her blog provides you with inputs about 'Open ID'. She checked PEAR and PECL for anything labeled ‘OpenID’ but found that the posts were about expanding OpenSSL functionality to provide some underlying bits of infrastructure code, Digital Signature Algorithm(DSA) verification and the like.

She tried Yahoo! Search. The first result pointed her at Auth_OpenID. This was the first Open ID system she laid her hands on and found some clean, well-written code.

She says, this package works with any version of PHP from 4 on up while taking advantage of newer features if they're detected. The translations of number theory into PHP code are sound, and with a couple of minor exceptions is speed efficient.

The package makes no assumptions about your environment and adapts to the most common DB backends, and the two standard big number libraries (BC and GMP).