What is it?

The auth class contains methods related to authorisation users to access various board functions, e.g. posting, viewing, replying, logging in (and out), etc. If you need to check whether a user can carry out a task or handle user login/logouts this class is required.

Initialisation

To use any methods contained with the auth class it first needs to be instantiated. This is best achieved early in the execution of the script in the following manner:

$auth = new auth();
	

Once an instance of the class has been created you are free to call the various methods it contains. Please note that should you wish to use the auth_admin methods you will need to instantiate this separately but in the same way.

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