Somehow I don’t think most people understood what my bias comparison of CakePHP vs Ruby on rails meant. The last few visitors to comments seem to have been Rails fans. One of them seems to think that I shouldn’t touch Ruby on Rails with a ten foot pole and should stick with CakePHP. He doesn’t want someone like me in their community. The other comment, I get the opposite vibe from. He strikes me as a PHP fan, who thinks I’m too lazy for the PHP community.

To all the folks that haven’t seem to understand my whole objective, let me help you guys out. I have general interests in a lot of areas and I also work a 9 to 5 job. So I don’t really have the time and dedication required to poor my heart and sole into everything that comes along. I do a brief overview of something before I spend tons of time delving into it. People are pissed that I’m comparing CakePHP to Ruby on Rails and haven’t even tried it yet. This is where the brief overview comes in; I took a quick look and realized that for what I was doing at the time, Ruby on Rails would have been more trouble that it was worth.

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This is the third installment of my Auth Component Tutorial. This tutorial builds on the first installment, so make sure you grab the download file:

  CakePHP Auth 1 (4.3 KB, 1,631 hits)

You'll find it on almost every popular web site's login page; a nice lil' checkbox that says "Remember Me". It seems to have become a basic addition to any page with a login form. Generally, when a user logs into a web site, he's logged in until his session expires. Which usually translates to when they close the browser window or when they allow the session to timeout.

With a Remember Me cookie, you hit the lil' checkbox and it stores a lil' cookie on the user's computer. This cookie can contain various information (we'll get to that later) but it essentially enables the user to bypass the login process the next time he comes to the page requiring authentication.

So, the simplest way to proceed is to list changes by file, so strap in your seat belts, here goes.

The Obvious, The Login Form - login.ctp

Now of course you need to add the checkbox and a label for said checkbox. Simple enough:

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