User Management, Saas with Stormpath, use case PHP SDK

1. User Management As a Service
Emmanuel Idé
Development Director at Quru

2. Benefits of SaaS
• whittle away complexity to focus on core
business logic
• lower initial cost
• Better maintainability
• Less reliance on server’s configuration

3. Examples of SaaS
• SendGrid (Email)
• Stripe (Subscriptions, Payment)
• Twilio (Voice, SMS)
• Stormpath (User Management)

4. Examples of User Management SaaS
• Stormpath
• Auth0
• Dailycred
• AuthRocket

5. User Management Challenges
• Increasing complexity (e.g. social plugins)
• Security (e.g. PCI compliance)
• Availability
• Interoperability (third party or internal apps)

6. User Management with Stormpath
• Login/Authentication
• User Profiles
• Roles
• Permissions
• Social Login
• Active Directory/LDAP

7. Examples of SaaS
• SendGrid (Email)
• Stripe (Subscriptions, Payment)
• Twilio (Voice, SMS)
• Stormpath (User Management)

8. Stormpath

9. Groups Architecture
• Directory: security policies, e.g. customers vs
employees
• Group: collection of accounts, role based
access control, e.g. Admin vs User
• Account: unique identity within the directory,
e.g. emmanuel.ide@netleap.co.uk

10. Stormpath PHP SDK
• Free
• Well documented
• Easy integration
• Limited functionalities (vs API)
e.g.: custom profile information

11. Stormpath

12. Code: instanciate application
$apiKey = new StormpathApiKey('apiKeyId', 'apiKeySecret');
$client = new StormpathClient($apiKey);
$href = 'https://api.stormpath.com/v1/applications/WpM9';
$application = $client-> dataStore-> getResource($href,
StormpathStormpath::APPLICATION);

13. Code: how to retrieve information
$href = 'https://api.stormpath.com/v1/directories/bckhc';
$directory = $client-> dataStore-> getResource($href,
StormpathStormpath::DIRECTORY);
// directory groups
$groups = $directory->groups;
// directory accounts
$accounts = $directory->accounts;

14. Code: Custom Data
THIS IS CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORT BY THE SDK
Core user data:
• Username
• Password
• Email
• Full Name
• Given Name
• Middle Name
• Surname

15. Code: useful methods
// Registration
$application->createAccount($account);
// Confirm Email
$account = $application->verifyAccountEmail($VERIFICATION_TOKEN);
// Authentication
$result = $application->authenticate('usernameOrEmail', 'password');
$account = $result->account;
// Send password reset request
$account = $application-
>sendPasswordResetEmail('john.smith@example.com');
// Check password reset token
$account = $application->verifyPasswordResetToken('$TOKEN');

16. Thanks
http://docs.stormpath.com/php/product-guide
Example of use:
http://staging.gadashboards.com
Emmanuel Idé
emmanuel.ide@gmail.com
07971455885