On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Chuck <chivalrys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only beforeFilter that I'm using is in the users_controller. I
> tried moving it to the app_controller but then it was't authenticating
> even with the correct password.
Perhaps there was another problem. But some of Auth's config should be
set in AppController so that, eg, it'll know where to redirect if a
user tries to access a restricted controller action other than in
users. The manual is not clear on that point. You can set fields,
loginRedirect, and logoutRedirect in users. But loginAction should be
set in AppController.
> I wasn't quite clear with the fact that pages/home flashes briefly. I
> don't see the page flash, only the URL in the address bar.
OK, that makes sense.
> For the time being I'm removing all the auth code, but if someone can
> point out how to do the following, I would really appreciate it.
>
> I have a users table with an email field to be used as the ID and a
> password field. Eventually the system would do the following: If no
> user is logged in, login fields appear in the top right of the screen
> for pages that are viewable without being logged in. If they are
> viewing those pages while being logged in, they see links for account
> settings, etc. If a user requests a page that requires them being
> logged in, it redirects to the home page. That's pretty much all I
> want, but can't even get the login to work. I've searched for
> tutorials and found a few, but none have yet helped me out.
Here's a really basic setup. I've put some of Auth's config in users,
as you've been doing.
AppController:
public $components = array('Auth', 'Session');
public function beforeFilter()
{
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->Auth->loginAction = array(
'controller' => 'users',
'action' => 'login'
);
}
UsersController:
public function beforeFilter()
{
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->Auth->fields = array(
'username' => 'email',
'password' => 'password'
);
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array(
'controller' => ...,
'action' => ...
);
$this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array(
'controller' => ...,
'action' => ...
);
}
layout (explained below):
<?php
if ($this->params['action'] != 'login') echo $this->element('users/login_form');
?>
views/users/login.ctp:
<h2>login</h2>
<div id="login">
<?= $this->element('users/login_form') ?>
</div>
views/elements/users/login_form.ctp:
echo $form->create('User', array('action' => 'login'));
...
echo $form->end();
So, the layout includes the login form in every page, except the login
page, where the form is included into the main body. If a person tries
logging in--and fails--from any regular page, Auth will redirect to
the login page.
I'm not satisfied with the test in the layout. It really should be
testing Router's URL array against Auth::loginAction. But I couldn't
come up with a way to do that in the layout. So, testing the
params['action'] string is a tiny cheat.
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