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Getting Started with OpenID and PHP

According to the official OpenID Web site, OpenID is “a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet”. Fundamentally, an OpenID is a customized URL, chosen by you as your online identity and registered with an OpenID service provider. Whenever an external site needs to verify your identity for login purposes, you supply this URL instead of your username; the site then contacts your OpenID service provider for authentication.

SourceForge Uses Zend Framework to Implement OpenID

Good news SourceForge junkies, the forge now supports OpenID! Better yet, they support it thanks to the Zend Framework OpenID component. Here’s the press release they published last week.

Lifting the Skirt on Zend Framework 1.5: Zend_Auth and the OpenId Adapter.

Probably my one favorite aspects of Zend Framework is that you can pull pieces out and use them by themselves without having to build a complete MVC installation. Not that building out a complete installation is difficult but there are times when you just need a small piece, not the entire puzzle. Zend_Auth is one of those pieces that can be pulled out and used by itself. If you need authentication for an existing application Zend_Auth may just be the piece you are looking for.

InfoWorld Interviews Andi Gutmans

Infoworld recently published a short article in which they talk to Andi Gutmans about the Zend Framework.