Just to be clear, I created a file named app_controller.php and put it in my app folder, so it's at the same level as my model, view, and controller folders.
The first thing I tried was using a class inside app_controller.php. I soon realized I had no idea what it should be called. I tried AppController extends AppController, then I thought, that doesn't seem right, so I renamed it to LoginController extends AppController. Cake was unhappy: Fatal error: Class logincontroller: Cannot inherit from undefined class appcontroller in /Library/WebServer/vhosts/calzone/app_controller.php on line 2 I then tried changing it AppController extends Controller (just like it is in the cake folder). On the one hand, I had no errors with this, but there was no way I was getting my beforeFilter functions to work properly. I tried splitting out the functions to a user model and using a redirect, but that caused a bad loop. I also tried using render() and requestAction() to no avail. So it hit me that maybe this file wasn't supposed to contain a class, but just loose code. So I extracted it from the code thinking "cool, now this will just be included at the top of every controller." And then I went back to getting errors. Obviously, I'm going about this the wrong way. While we're at it: 1) how exactly do I determine if the "current page" is xxxx so I could exclude the global code. and 2) Ideally, I would not be using a redirect, but simply replacing the contents of what you would normally see at the same url with a login page; but that's way more advanced in cake than I can even dream at this point :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
