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CodeIgniter provides an official authentication and authorization framework :ref:CodeIgniter Shield <shield> for CodeIgniter 4, It is designed to be secure, flexible, and easily extendable to meet the needs of many different types of websites.

The following are recommended guidelines to encourage consistency among developers of modules, projects, and the framework itself.

Recommendations

• Modules that handle login and logout operations should trigger the login and logout Events when successful
• Modules that define a "current user" should define the function user_id() to return the user's unique identifier, or null for "no current user"

Modules that fulfill these recommendations may indicate compatibility by adding the following provision to composer.json::

"provide": {
    "codeigniter4/authentication-implementation": "1.0"
},

You may view a list of modules that provide this implementation on Packagist <https://packagist.org/providers/codeigniter4/authentication-implementation>_.