Homework 11: Authentication

Watch test videos:

• Authentication (YouTube Links to an external site.)
• Authentication in PHP (YouTube Links to an external site.)
  
  • the code from the video Links to an external site.

Change the Users table from the class example to include a password. Make a function in quizzer-api.php called authenticate(username, password) that returns true if the user is authenticated, or sets the response header error code to 401 (Unauthorized) and dies with an error saying the username or password were bad. Every request to the API should now required a username and password field, and every API handler function should include a call to the authenticate function.

Remember, to get credit for the homework, you don't have to have solutions that are 100% complete and working; I want to see that you made an effort to get them working so you can ask informed questions in class and so that when we go over and extend the homework in class, you have some working context for what we're doing.

Commit your two PHP files in a folder homework/hw11/ in your CSC302 git repo and push to GitHub. Submit a link to your the hw11 folder on GitHub to this Canvas assignment.