Hi, by default the Auth component needs to be configured in your
UsersController. Your users controller only needs to have 2 actions.
function login() {
}
You can leave the login action blank as the Auth component handles the
rest. You just need a view for the login action.
function logout() {
$this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
}
Just create a link to the logout action to log them out.
Then you only have to create a login view for your users controller
login action. On the login view create a form with an input for the
username and password and a submit button, and that's pretty much it.
I have 3 videos on working with the Auth component on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXAnizmR94
On Aug 15, 4:09 am, LCR <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Hoping someone can help me keep the rest of my hair... I've spent the
> last day looking over so many Auth tutorials and haven't got anywhere.
> For some reason I haven't been able to get my head around it so far,
> so I've come on here in the hope of getting a specific example that
> helps me with my specific case (which I don't think is uncommon). For
> someone with more experience with the framework, this should be a
> piece of cake! wink.gif
>
> I'm building a site in CakePHP (v1.3.10) that needs an admin back-end
> accessed via "/cms". The back end must be accessed by a single user
> log-in. Once they are logged in, they can use all the features of the
> CMS, and if they try to access any of the CMS while not logged in,
> they should get redirected to the CMS login page. It's that simple!
>
> In routes.php I have the following:
>
> Router::connect('/cms', array('controller' => 'homepages', 'action' =>
> 'index', 'admin' => true));
>
> My homepages_controller is responsible for showing the public-facing
> home page, and currently the index() action also takes care of
> checking to see if it should display the CMS login page:
>
> function index() {
> if ( isset($this->params['admin']) && $this->params['admin']) {
> $this->layout = false; # We'll just use the view for now
> $this->viewPath = 'cms';
> $this->render('index');
> }
>
> $this->Homepage->recursive = 0;
> $this->set('homepage', $this->Homepage->find('first'));
> $this->set('title_for_layout', 'my title');
>
> }
>
> There's also a cms_index() action in the homepages_controller which is
> currently commented out, and ideally I think I'd like that to
> automatically take care of showing the CMS login page without me
> having to check the 'admin' parameter in the front-end index() action.
>
> In my core.php I have the following:
>
> Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('cms'));
>
> I also know that in my app_controller file I need to put:
>
> var $components = array('Auth')
>
> I have set up my users table with id, username and password.
>
> It's where to go from here, and how to configure the Auth component,
> that has me stumped.
>
> Would any kind souls like to share with me what the next step might
> be? (Incidentally, I can't use the .htaccess method to achieve this -
> I need to use the Auth component if at all possible.)
>
> Many thanks in advance.
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