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Defined in

libraries/joomla/user/authentication.php

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Constructor
authenticate	Finds out if a set of login credentials are valid by asking all obvserving objects to run their respective authentication routines.
getInstance	Returns a reference to a global authentication object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.user.authentication' );