Introduction to user management
Usually, other popular PHP development frameworks such as Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and Laravel don't provide built-in user modules. Developers tend to build their own user management modules and use them across many projects of the same framework. WordPress offers a built-in user management system to cater to common user management tasks in web applications. Such things include:
- Managing user roles and capabilities
- Built-in user registration
- Built-in user login
- Built-in forgot password
Developers are likely to encounter these tasks in almost all web applications. On most occasions, these features and functions can be effectively used without significant changes to the code. However, web applications are much more advanced, and hence we might need various customizations on these existing features. It's important to explore the possibility of extending these functions so that they are compatible with advanced application requirements. In the upcoming...
