Implement authentication helper functions in User class

Added function to initialize a User object by username wrather than GUID.
Added function to validate a user-supplied plain-text password for a given user

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/class/user.class.php b/app/class/user.class.php
index 6bce26c..bd2e174 100644
--- a/app/class/user.class.php
+++ b/app/class/user.class.php
@@ -28,6 +28,21 @@ class User extends Object
     }
 
     /*
+     * Initialize object by username
+     */
+    function initByUsername($username)
+    {
+        $query = "SELECT guid FROM object WHERE type = 'user' AND name = '" . $this->db->esc($username) . "'";
+        $result = $this->db->query($query);
+
+        if (count($result) == 0)
+            return false;
+
+        $this->loadObj($result[0]['guid']);
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /*
      * Get all users -- ordered by name, ascending
      */
     function getAllUsers_orderByName()
@@ -96,6 +111,15 @@ class User extends Object
 
         return true;
     }
+
+    /*
+     * Validate the password for this user.  Returns true if correct, false otherwise
+     */
+    function validatePassword($password)
+    {
+        $key = $this->getKey($password, $this->salt);
+        return $key == $this->key;
+    }
 }
 
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