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How to do HTTP Authentication with Codiad

Codiad is a very powerful, user-friendly open source web-based IDE. Starting with version 2.x, there is a simple way to integrate external authentication with codiad. This gist shows to make Codiad use HTTP authentication, automatically adding a new user Codiad configuration if - whoever was authenticated by the HTTP server - does not have a Codiad account.

How to integrate it

In the Codiad folder, open the config.php file and look for the line that starts with define("AUTH_PATH",. Uncomment and set the second parameter of the define to codiad_http_auth.php.

Then save the codiad_http_auth.php file from below in the same folder and enjoy

Credit

I learned a lot from the Codiad-LDAPExternalAuth example

codiad_http_auth.php

<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION['user'])) {
	require_once( COMPONENTS . "/user/class.user.php" );

	$_SESSION['user'] = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'];
	$_SESSION['lang'] = 'en';
	$_SESSION['theme'] = 'default';
	$_SESSION['project'] = '/var/www';

	$User = new User();
	$User->username = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'];
	if ($User->CheckDuplicate()) {
		// confusingly, this means the user must be created
		$User->users[] = array( 'username' => $User->username, 'password' => null, 'project' => "" );
		saveJSON( "users.php", $User->users );
	}
}