phpAuthent is a free and open source software designed to help implementing users and groups based security in PHP based websites.

Further more, it provides an authentication layer (through public methods usage), a database schema for storing authentication related information, and a web-based administration module to manage users, groups and rights management.

The objective of phpAuthent is to provide a security layer that is easy to use and implement.

Key features:

• Users and groups management


• Page level security and in-page security


• Groups memberships assigned through a graphical embedded utility


• One user can be assigned to several groups


• Easy to use security API


• Web administration interface (supports multiple languages)


• Lightweight MySQL database