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Defined in

libraries/joomla/user/authentication.php

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Constructor
authenticate	Finds out if a set of login credentials are valid by asking all obvserving objects to run their respective authentication routines.
getInstance	Returns the global authentication object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.user.authentication' );