CAS = Central Authentication System You can find the plugin on the web2py website or by searching the usergroup. http://www.web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/show/49
I ended up rolling my own, as this project I am working on is also being used by me to learn the ins and outs of the framework. T2 is excellent for user management, but I needed custom login/register/ prefs views in my app, and I didn't want to spend the time to learn the intricacies of T2 in order to customize its views. I would use T2 when I just needed something QUICK, and didn't care about the UI design details. CAS would have been a good alternative, but I had the same problem with it as T2. I am currently done my USER controls part of the webapp, and am moving onto the actual functionality (took 1.5 week to finish learning and making lots of mistakes). Mind you 1 out of the 1.5 was spent of stuff other than web2py, like getting javascript plug-ins to work with web2py (see my thickbox question thread). It was slow going at the beginning, but I have now written enough code for the USER controls, and used enough web2py features to really be able to move much faster. As a way to learn web2py, I HIGHLY recommend rolling your own USER login/register/modify app. It is an excellent way to introduce yourself to the basic functionality of the framework. I am using a combination of FORM helpers and my own custom written HTML form code and get/post. I will happily post the source-code as GPL once I finish enough of the program, as I am a strong believer in 2 lines of comment per line of code, so my code is quite well commented. Though, while there is a great quantity of comments, I can't speak for their quality. My setup: OS: Mac OSX - 2gig ram mac mini web2py 1.61.3 Eclipse IDE + pyDev + HTML/CSS/Jscript plugins Firefox + Firebug -> open tabs: web2py usergroup, Web2py interactive examples, web2py epidoc, blueprint CSS library homepage, web2py myApp Design admin interface, web2py app html pages for testing what I write, Python Tutorial at python.org, w3cschool for CSS/HTML reference. PDF reader -> open to: web2py Manual ($12 PDF), and sometimes other texts like T2 manual (for inspiration, not actually using T2). I was also interested in web2py since before T2, and had stopped by the forum often. However, I have only recently had the time to write some web-apps. Cheers. On Apr 21, 2:39 pm, Tim Michelsen <timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de> wrote: > > As someone who started coding an app in web2py 2 weeks ago, I can say > > that it is by-far the easiest framework to use. For the app I am > > working on I have looked at numerous frameworks in numerous languages, > > including ruby + rails, python + django/turboGears/etc, PHP + Zend, > > perl + gantry, etc. > > > I must say that it is not completely straight forward in that I never > > had any questions (as you can see by searching how many questions I > > asked). However, the problems I encountered are to do with either my > > ignorance, or things that I choose to do the hard way, I.e. without > > using T2/T3/CAS. > > I can only support that. > My idea came around one month ago. > I search for frameworks read the cookbook.pdf 2 weeks ago. > Couldn't resist to try it. > The base functionality is now in. > I am now to tweak the view, searches... > > I would love to see more t2 examples for beginners. > > What is CAS? > > Regards, > Timmie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
