Use with symfony1.4.x to sign in/out to secure parts of the site. This is meant to be used with sfDoctrineGuardPlugin but can be changed to be used with others.

sfAuthTestFunctional.class.php

<?php

class sfAuthTestFunctional extends sfTestFunctional
{

  /**
   * @param string $username
   * @param string $password
   * @return sfAuthTestFunctional
   */
  public function signin($username, $password)
  {
    return $this->info('Signing In')
      ->get('/sfGuardAuth/signin')
      ->click('Signin', array(
        'signin' => array(
          'username' => $username,
          'password' => $password)))
      ->with('form')->begin()
        ->hasErrors(0)
      ->end()
      ->with('user')->begin()
        ->isAuthenticated()
      ->end();
  }

  /**
   * @return sfAuthTestFunctional 
   */
  public function signout()
  {
    return $this->info('Signing Out')
      ->get('/sfGuardAuth/signout');
  }

}