Thank you for your response. Basically I just need to protect custom admin panel, for managing content, public calendar, uploading images/photos/managingGallery and basic stuff like this. I do not need multiple user accounts to differentiate changes on the page though. But I do need signup, password resets/forgots, email verification and captcha I guess. But those can be handled by those libraries, so that is why I am considering libs vs. full fledged framework. I know about Symphony but it has steeper learning curve, though I am aware of its power. Don't care if Laravel is dumb, but I am a bit concerned from my frontend/graphic point of view, that I will be limited to some degree with what I can do with my site. As someone who has seen and understand Laravel structure, can you comment on this? If I may hit rock-bottom at some point in my development, if I would like to do some wild stuff on with sites? For reference: sites like you can find on awwwards.com where Laravel frmwrk is not as much seen (if at all) a lot of animation, three.js and other libraries are used, or I shouldn't be concerned about that at all and routing shouldn't be problem?
I still feel that for my purpose even Symfony or any framework would be overkill. Or maybe learning proper auth in PHP would be more effective in my case? I am a bit disappointed that I can not find some functional open-source PHP lib that would be updated regularly by some PRO PHP developers 😕 If someone knows up-to-date manuals for proper PHP auth, please do share, thank you.
PS: When I speak about Auth, I mean authentication+authorization, since I know about Casbin (author. lib) but some lib. that would handle it all for PHP exclusively.
