I2CE User Access

This is default authentication mechanism used by the iHRIS Suite.

This user access mechansim is implemented by the [[Class: I2CE_UserAccess | I2CE_UserAccess]] class.

Configuration

To use the default user authentication, you need to enable the module and possibly set an initialization string.

Enabling the Module

To enable, just make sure you have:

<requirement name='UserAccess'>
  <atLeast version='4.0'/>
  <lessThan version='4.1'/>
</requirement>

Initialization String

The initialization string is sent to I2CE::initialize() in the index.php as the fourth argument, $user_access_init . This string is designed to be backwards compatible with the I2CE::intialize() method prior to version 4.0.3 and can take any of the following formats:

  • null: The is the default value and means that we use the default tables (below) within the current database

  • a JSON encoded string: The data to is a JSON enocode string of optional configuration value for the user access. The JSON encoded data has the following keys:

  • userDB: The name of the database where the *user table lies

  • detailTable: An alternate table to use instead of *user

  • logTable: An alternate table to use instead of *user_log

  • accessTable: An alternate table to use instead if *access

Database Structure

It uses the following tables in your database:

  • access. The table which associates a user’s id to its role. It has the following columns:

  • *user: int(11)

  • *role: varchar(255)

  • user The list of all user’s known to the iHRIS Suite. It has the following columsn:

  • *id: int(11)

  • *username: varchar(20)

  • *password: varchar(50)

  • *firstname: varchar(50)

  • *lastname: varchar(100)

  • *email: varchar(100)

  • *creator: int(11) the user id that created this account

In addition, the table user_log keeps track of the user activity.