# Looking for a semi-secure "user login" framework

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looking-for-a-semi-secure-user-login-framework/324347
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [August 16, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looking-for-a-semi-secure-user-login-framework/324347 "2011-08-16T07:49:54Z")
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### Author: ![IQAndreas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f08c70/32.png) [@IQAndreas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/IQAndreas)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looking-for-a-semi-secure-user-login-framework/324347/1 "2011-08-16T07:49:54Z")

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\*\*The back story can be ignored. Just skip to the bold question below.  
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I’m working on a site which relies on Joomla for a few features. I want to abandon the bloated Joomla, and I realized that there are only two parts of the Joomla framework that I’m actually using in this project:  
[LIST]  
[_]Users (which includes the standard registration, validation emails, etc)  
[_]Database access (Just a few helper classes making handling databases easier)  
[/LIST]The latter I can easily code myself, and the former I might be able to scrape together something for, but that will mean more work, delaying this project even more.

\*\*Does anyone know a semi-secure framework in PHP which handles users?

\*\*(and by semi-secure, I mean not storing the passwords in plaintext. 😉