With a web service your authentication system should be stateless - that is not dependent on session
Start at http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#creating-stateless-authentication-systems HTH Tarique On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Kiran Ambati <kiran00...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > In cakephp 2.1, I am developing a cakephp application , also web service for > third party application to access data. Output is json. > > First time when user logs in through web service we create some > authentication token and for every next call client will send the > authentication token and I have to check authentication token available to > allow other actions of app. > > I wrote a login function. when user tries to logs in , it returns success or > failure message. This is where I stuck. How to create this authentication > token? Where does cakephp store user related session? Can I write session > like > >> $this->Session->Write('check.session','random string') > > and then read it in second client call using > > $this->Session->read('check.session'). > > Or is there any other better way to achieve this. > > -- > Thank you, > Kiran. > > -- > 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 > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- ============================================================= PHP for E-Biz: http://sanisoft.com ============================================================= -- 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 cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
