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By: CakePHP and the (in)famous Auth component « Westsworld

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By: Foroct Fralion

Foroct Fralion — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:24:15 +0000

sorry I meant to say

$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array(‘controller’ => ‘users’, ‘action’ => ‘view’, $auth['User']['username'] );

Obviously passing the password field would not work

By: Foroct Fralion

Foroct Fralion — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:21:11 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial it has helped me to do many of the things I wanted to do with my cake project.

I am having one problem though. I want a user to be able to log in and be redirected to their user page. Your example shows $this->Auth->loginRedirect = array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘display’ => ‘home’) and I know that by calling $auth['User']['username'] I can call up the logged in users username so I figured that I could use

$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array(‘controller’ => ‘users’, ‘action’ => ‘view’, $auth['User']['password'] );

but that doesn’t work. Do you have any thoughts as to how I would allow a person to log in and redirect them to a their user page (/users/view/username)?

Thanks!

By: Kevin Lloyd

Kevin Lloyd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:09:47 +0000

I didn’t notice this for a long while. Thank you.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:27:18 +0000

I’m interested in downloading the source files for this tutorial, but the page says that “You need to be a registered user to download this file.”, but I can’t find any way of registering.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:47:09 +0000

$this->Auth->authorize = …; allows you to set
function isAuthorized(){
…
}
and you can determine how the user is actually authorized instead of having the AuthComponent do it automatically by comparing the user model.
So setting it to ‘controller’ you would define the isAuthorized() method in your controller.
You could also set it to ‘model’ and stick the isAuthorized() method inside the model. There are also more settings such as ‘actions’ and ‘crud’ which are explained in more detail at http://book.cakephp.org/view/248/AuthComponent-Variables
-Sam

By: Wahid Sadik

Wahid Sadik — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:57:11 +0000

Kevin, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for the tutorial.

By: lien

lien — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:32:41 +0000

I also got the file does not exist. Are we doing something wrong?

By: kodegeek

kodegeek — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:19:23 +0000

I’m facing a strange problem, allowed an action for users controller(forgetpassword) from app controller but it doesn’t allow to access. any sol???

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By: Baz L

Baz L — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:45:34 +0000

Not a problem. I’ve been dragging my feet about doing an appropriate followup

By: Mohammad Arif Hossen

Mohammad Arif Hossen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:22:11 +0000

Thanks for Auth Tutorial.

By: bakephp

bakephp — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:02:55 +0000

i tried downloading the file it gives
“File does not exist.” =(

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:30:36 +0000

I’m just beginning with Cake and maybe the question seems stupid, but… I have copied the files from archive to the Cake’s ‘app’ folder, created the database by executing the SQL script in the ‘auth.sql’ file and configured ‘database.php’ and ‘core.php’ files just like I did for the Cake’s blog tutorial. Then I pointed Firefox to ‘localhost/cake/users/login’, entered some data into the username and password fields and hit ‘Sign in’, but nothing happened (I also tried to add some users to the ‘users’ table – same story). Only query in the log table below the login form changes…
Is it supposed to be that way?

P.S. I use Cake 1.2 RC2

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:34:30 +0000

I suppose the more appropriate question is, not why is it overriding app_controller.php, but is there a way around this so I can allow entire controllers?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:57:58 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial… It’s helped me out. I have a question though regarding this:

“You can also add to this in the beforeFilter() of each controller you you need (donâ€™t forget the parent::beforeFilter() to make sure the Auth stuff is still called)”

I added the allow method to the beforeFilter in a controller and added “parent::BeforeFilter()”, but it the allow method in app_controller.php is overriding the individual controller. Any ideas why? Thanks.

By: David

David — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:56:03 +0000

I think this component has problems in Apache sometimes, as it will create a session in the file system if you set session type to ‘cake’ in the /app/config/core.php, but it does seem to just submit the form and then jump back to the login page.

I have set,
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘action’ => ‘display’, ‘loggedin’);

In order to see if the login works correctly, but it doesn’t seem to. I think a second or even third instalment of this fantastic article would be great as doing login’s in cake atm is a real pain in the ass and getting a component to just work would be fabulous!

By: Johannes Fahrenkrug

Johannes Fahrenkrug — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:23:11 +0000

Nice article, thanks. For anyone interested, I wrote a custom cakephp shell for creating users with authcomponent: http://blog.springenwerk.com/2008/07/cakephp-creating-custom-shell-for.html

- Johannes

By: Baz L

Baz L — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:20:41 +0000

This isn’t a full example. You cut and paste where necessary.