User Authentication and Management Example

This repository accompanies the IBM developerWorks article. It's built with PHP, Slim 3.x and Bootstrap. It delivers an example application that uses a hosted Passport service instance on Bluemix for user authentication and user account management.

The steps below assume that a Passport service instance has been instantiated via the the Bluemix console. For details, refer to the accompanying article on IBM developerWorks.

To deploy this application to your local development environment:

• Clone the repository to your local system.
• Run composer update to install all dependencies.
• Create config.php with credentials for the Passport service. Use config.php.sample as an example.
• (optional) Define a virtual host pointing to the public directory, as described in the article.

To deploy this application to your Bluemix space:

• Clone the repository to your local system.
• Create manifest.yml with your custom hostname. Use manifest.yml.sample as an example.
• Push the application to Bluemix and bind the Passport service to it, as described in the article.
• Define the application ID as an environment variable for your Bluemix application, as described in the article.

Application routes

• /home - Public page, accessible to all
• /account - Private page, accessible to logged-in users only
• /login - Login page
• /logout - Logout page
• /password-request - Password recovery page
• /password-reset - Password reset page
• /admin/users/index - User list
• /admin/users/save - User creation/modification form
• /admin/users/delete - User deletion page
• /admin/users/activate/UID - User activation page
• /admin/users/deactivate/UID - User deactivation page
• /members/gold - Private page, restricted to users with role "member-gold"
• /members/silver - Private page, restricted to users with role "member-silver"