On Feb 11, 2011, at 00:13, Ed wrote:
> I am new to Cake but, am diving in head first... I've tried several
> different types of coding examples on how to allow a User to change
> their password. This is the version I am trying and we (my group) do
> have Auth working, so 'User' needs to be "Auth.User" ... Can anyone
> give me an idea why it doesn't work?
Define "doesn't work".
> function change_password() {
> if (!empty($this->data)) {
> $user = $this->Session->read("Auth.User");
> $this->User->id = $user['id'];
> $someone = $this->User->findById($this->User->id);
> if(md5($this->data['change']['oldpassword']) !=
> $someone["Auth.User"]['password']) {
Don't call md5; use the salted hash function provided by CakePHP:
Security::hash().
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