Auth::setAuth()

Auth::setAuth() -- set a specific user to be marked as logged in

Synopsis

void Auth::setAuth (string $username)

Description

Mark the session up to indicate that the username supplied has successfully logged in. Although normally used for internal purposes this function can be used to fake a login.

Parameter

string $name

the name of the data field

Note

This function can not be called statically.

This function will also call session_regenerate_id() so as to prevent session fixation attacks.