Chapter 6. Users, authentications, and permissions

This chapter covers

  • Enabling user registration via username/password
  • Connecting to an SMTP server to send emails
  • Customizing email messages for accounts-related messages
  • Adding OAuth authentication via Facebook
  • Managing permissions using allow/deny

Once an application is connected to one or more data sources, it’s capable of displaying dynamic content. To customize the content different users see, the application needs to know who is requesting data. Most likely some users will be able to add content, but there will be some restrictions on both what data can be accessed and what can be done with it.

For these reasons this chapter introduces the concept of users and accounts. Up until ...

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