Edu’Actief is making more and more digital products instead of the regular paper books. This is the reason that Edu’Actief uses LDAP for storing username, password and e-mail. Trough the Single Sign On system I made users can login into websites, Flash games and software.

To provide access they generated a long list of usernames and random generated passwords that users could login with. This requires the user to remember yet another username and password. It would be ideal if users could use their own username and password on out systems. This is where the DigiCode system kicks in. The name says it all, it’s a digital code. Users can register themself with their username, password and email. When the register they don’t have access to our products. They have to buy a DigiCode from us, seperate or printed in a book. On the DigiCode website the enter this code and this gives them access to the product. A DigiCode can give access for a specific time or until a specific date. Besides the benifit of users choosing there own username and password it allows Edu’Actief to provide promotional codes for their products. The system is fully writen and maintained by me. It passed the audit from an accountant.

Used technologies:

• NuSoap - Soap Client/Server
• MySQL - Database server
• LDAP - User storage
• CakePHP - PHP Application Framework

As you may have noticed I’m currently busy recreating this blog. The last personal blog had many “sorry” items. Sorry items are items that start with something like “Sorry it’s been a while since my last post”. They indicate that the writer (in this case me) doesn’t embrace it’s blog. For me I think this happened becouse this blog didn’t have a subject.

One thing I found out is that a blog needs a clear, well defined subject to make a succes. So I choosen my main subject: “Web development“. This is what I do for a living so that is something I can write about. Other things you can find is my portfolio work and maybe a foto time to time. I won’t publish about my live, I don’t meet the president enough for this to be interesting

So be ready for some real web development stories!

Kind regards,
Elze Kool

Edu’Actief has many learning websites running on different domains. Becouse cookies don’t work accross multiple domains a user session can’t easely shared between them. The Single Sign On system I wrote helps to overcome this problem. It consists of a webservice and application specific plugins (CakePHP, Joomla). Now when a user logs on at one website it’s automaticly logged on when he goes to another website. Also single log of is provided.

Used technologies:

• NuSoap - Soap Client/Server
• MySQL - Database server
• Joomla - Content management systeem
• CakePHP - PHP Application Framework