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Auth::setAuth()

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

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.