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PHP User Authentication

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Application Overview

1:26 with Alena Holligan and Brian Retterer

Now that we understand the overview of authentication, we will take a look at the application we will be developing during the course.

We're going to be building a book voting website 0:00
that you can share among your book club to decide what people wanna read next. 0:03
We'll be using authentication to allow only registered users to vote on books. 0:07
We'll be using authorization to allow all users to add and 0:12
edit their own books, and allow administrators to modify any books. 0:16
Let's dig into the application and see how it works. 0:21
The core of our application falls around our list of books. 0:24
These books are able to be submitted by authenticated users only, but 0:28
can be viewed by anyone. 0:32
We'll build a full registration for creating new users and 0:33
also a login system for logging into the site. 0:37
Once you're logged into the site, you'll see the link to add a book. 0:43
This is where you can add your own books. 0:47
Also on the booklist page, we now have the ability to edit and 0:50
delete books as well as the up vote and down vote buttons. 0:53
Once you add a book you'll be able to edit and 0:57
delete your own books but not books added by other people. 0:59
Unless you're an administrator in which case you can edit and delete all books. 1:03
Once you're logged in and 1:08
you're an administrator you'll be able to access the administrator panel. 1:10
Here you'll see all users that are currently signed up for the application. 1:14
As an administrator you'll be able to promote other users to an administrator 1:18
and also demote them to a regular user. 1:22