Introduction to user management
Usually, popular PHP development frameworks such as Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and Laravel don't provide a built-in user module. Developers tend to build their own user management modules and use it across many projects of the same framework. WordPress offers a built-in user management system to cater to common user management tasks found in web applications. Such things include the following:
- Managing user roles and capabilities
- A built-in user registration functionality
- A built-in user login functionality
- A built-in forgot password functionality
Developers are likely to encounter these tasks in almost all web applications. In most cases, these features and functions can be effectively used without significant changes in 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 in order to be compatible...
