Time for action – setup of our Xataface application
As we mentioned earlier, the default installation of Xataface is not appropriate as a backside portal for Moodle due to the fact that it grants universal and unlimited access to all of the tables in the Moodle database. There are a wealth of tutorials to help assist you customize your Xataface instance on the web in the Wiki area of the Xataface website at www.xataface.com. We will walk through a few of those that are considered to be crucial when using this package together with Moodle. We will start by setting up the authentication feature in Xataface in order to limit access to users who have been granted usernames and passwords. The types of access that can be granted to users will also be listed. To enable the authentication function, follow these steps:
Before we set up authentication in the Xataface application, we need to create a table in the database to store user information. This is a perfect chance for us to use the PHPMyAdmin...
