16.1. Get User Demo Sample from GitHub

For demonstration, in this chapter, we will create a real-life User Demo website that shows how to:

• Create a new module named User. This module will contain the functionality for user authentication and user management.
• Create User entity.
• Implement storing users' passwords in a database securely.
• Implement user authentication (with login and password).
• Implement an access filter to provide access to certain pages to authenticated users only.
• Implement user management UI that allows adding, editing, and viewing a user, and changing user's password.
• Implement main menu items differently based on whether the current user is logged in or not.

To download the User Demo application, visit this page and click the Clone or Download button to download the code as a ZIP archive. When download is complete, unpack the archive to some directory.

Then navigate to the userdemo directory containing the source code of the User Demo web application:

/using-zf3-book-samples
  /userdemo
  ...

The User Demo is a website which can be installed on your machine.

Detailed instructions on how to install the User Demo sample can be found in README.md file located in the sample directory.