There are some 'Remember Me' add ons in the bakery. I tried one in that past that worked fairly well.
On Mar 11, 2:36 pm, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 11, 2011, at 13:13, DigitalDude wrote: > > > I'm going to need a function called "Keep me logged in" in my app, and > > I'm not sure how to do this. You've all probably seen such a feature, > > I'm assuming it means that a cookie or sth else is stored on the > > user's machine that will tell the browser or the cake app that a user > > is still logged in with his/her data. > > > I know some users delete all cookies when they close their browsers > > (as I do) and this feature will have no effect for them, but for all > > other users I want this feature to work. > > > Does any one of you ever coded such a feature or has any idea where to > > get information on this? > > Yup, sounds like a cookie to me. You'll probably store the username and some > form of encrypted password in the cookie. When accessing your login page, or > maybe every page of your site that differs based on the logged-in user, > you'll check if logged in; if not, you'll check if this remember-me cookie > exists. If it does, you'll hand that information off to the login process and > log them in. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
