"Build a Rails API" was retired on May 27, 2019.

Heads up! To view this whole video, sign in with your Courses account or enroll in your free 7-day trial. Sign In Enroll

Introduction to User Authentication in PHP

Well done!

You have completed Introduction to User Authentication in PHP!

Sign up for Treehouse Back to Library

Next Steps

1:14 with Alena Holligan

You have Authenticated and Authorized a book voting application. What do you do next?

Additional Resources

Introduction to Application Security

Suggested Enhancements

  • Add or Change the messaging.
  • Add additional authorization checks.
  • Add more information to your books, such as category, isbn or cover image.
  • Allow users to leave comments on books.
  • Add an additional role that only allows users to vote, and maybe add comments, but not add books.
  • Change the voting system to be 5 stars instead of up/down voting.
  • Allow administrators to create users.
  • Share your book voting site with friends and family and allow them to give you additional feature suggestions.

Object-Oriented Approach

When implementing user authentication in an object-oriented application, the same methods would be used. The approach will be slightly different because most of the authentication will be handled through routing.

Check out the Object-Oriented version of the application, where you can see before and after Authentication has been implemented. You can also read some tips for implementing with routes.

Related Discussions

Have questions about this video? Start a discussion with the community and Treehouse staff.

Sign up

    Related Discussions

    Have questions about this video? Start a discussion with the community and Treehouse staff.

    Sign up

    Congratulations on building authentication and authorization for your application. 0:00
    Whether you build your own authentication in the future, or 0:06
    use an existing resource, the skills and knowledge you learned in this course 0:09
    will serve you well for keeping your data safe and secure. 0:13
    We've covered the basic principles that all authentication systems will use. 0:18
    Most frameworks will include their own suggestions for authentication and 0:23
    authorization. 0:27
    When you use existing packages, 0:29
    you have more eyes helping to make sure that your code is secure. 0:31
    This means that it's important to choose a reputable package that is continuing to 0:35
    provide security updates as new vulnerabilities are discovered. 0:40
    It's also important to make sure that the packages you're using stay up to date. 0:44
    Practice the new skills you've learned by choosing some of the suggested 0:50
    enhancements in the notes associated with this video. 0:54
    We've also included additional resources to continue your exploration of this 0:58
    subject. 1:02
    Authentication and authorization are a key feature of many applications. 1:04
    Use this skills you've learned to take your apps to the next level 1:09
    as you have fun and keep learning. 1:12

    You need to sign up for Treehouse in order to download course files.

    Sign up

      You need to sign up for Treehouse in order to set up Workspace

      Sign up