User Authentication With patUser (part 3) (
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In this concluding article, find out about how to use patUser
to
identify users and groups by different criteria, track a user's clicks, maintain user statistics, and gracefully handle errors.In the previous segment of this article, I discussed the various library
functions related to user and group management, and also showed you some
examples of how they could be used in real-world Web application
development.
While the API for user and group management does form the
core of the patUser library, it's not all there is on display. patUser also
includes a number of utility functions that can come in handy for certain
specialized tasks. These functions include identifying users and groups by
different criteria (such as name or email address); keeping track of the URLs
visited by the user so as to generate a user trail; maintaining user account
statistics for auditing purposes; and providing exception-handling routines for
more graceful error handling.
All these (and more) are discussed in the
following pages - so keep reading!
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