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JAuthentication::authenticate

Description

Finds out if a set of login credentials are valid by asking all obvserving objects to run their respective authentication routines.

public function authenticate (
        $credentials
        $options
)

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
$credentials	array		Array holding the user credentials
$options

• Returns mixed Integer userid for valid user if credentials are valid or boolean false if they are not
• Defined on line 83 of libraries/joomla/user/authentication.php
• Since

See also

• JAuthentication::authenticate source code on BitBucket
• Class JAuthentication
• Subpackage User
• Other versions of JAuthentication::authenticate

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