Hi, The basic definition of the table schema is available in the Cookbook. You can add whatever else you want to the table (full name, address...) http://book.cakephp.org/view/172/Authentication
The model code "requires" nothing at all, but you probably want to add some of your own validations and any methods and callbacks needed to support associations, extra fields you define for the User model and so on. But the things directly affecting Authentication does not require any special code in your model. Auth keeps a set of defaults for everything you MAY wish to configure. The code you have extracted is where the default login action is defined as "controller is the plural name of model used and the action is called login" (/users/login). It looks a bit complicated since you can decide that Auth should use the model Account (or anything you like) and in that case the default login action would be /accounts/ login. You can override this by calling: $this->Auth->loginAction = '/ anything/you/like'; /Martin On Jan 7, 7:25 pm, 703designs <[email protected]> wrote: > OK. I know that the 'password'-related methods expect a sha1'd or > md5'd CHAR(40) field, and I thought that this corresponded with a > basic model definition somewhere. > > Could you help me to understand what this craziness is? I think that > know what it does (expects the login() method in UsersController), but > I'd like to know _how_ it does it. "..." indicates omitted code. > > class AuthComponent extends Object { > ... > function __setDefaults() { > ... > // This is the part that interests me > $defaults = array( > 'loginAction' => Router::normalize(array( > 'controller'=> Inflector::underscore(Inflector::pluralize > ($this->userModel)), > 'action' => 'login' > )), > ... > ); > ... > > } > > Thanks, > Thomas > > On Jan 7, 12:53 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is no default User model. You need to create that yourself. Set > > that up however you'd like and then add login, logout, etc. methods > > for the Auth component. > > > I'll leave it to someone else to go over the benefits of Auth. > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM, 703designs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I just began working with the Auth component, and I would like to know > > > what it provides for me and what I will have to provide on my own. > > > When I'm used to the process of defining my own models, etc. it's > > > somewhat disorienting to simply add a $form->create(), inputs(), and > > > end() to create a login page. > > > > Where can I see the default User model? How do you recommend I go > > > about extending this model (to have other user data such as email, > > > phone, etc.)? My other questions will probably be based on what I > > > found out from this question. Thanks! > > > > Thomas > > > Novice Cake Baker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
