I just followed the recipe from scratch and found no issues. I am able to log in with either a user account, or an email. Can you set DEBUG to 2 (in your app/config/core.php file) and paste the queries that are shown?
On Apr 11, 5:42 pm, john lyles <confidentia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I am following a recipe from 'Cakephp 1.3 Application Development > Cookbook' ByMarianoIglesiasand I am stuck with the recipe 'Allowing > logins with username or email' on page 16 of the book. > > The recipe works except one problem which I cannot figure out. If I > login with the email instead of the username the loginError message > flashes on the screen. This doesn't happen if I login using the > username. > > I should note also that you have to do the basic auth setup before you > can do this recipe, and the basic setup works with no issues that I > have noticed so far. > > This is what the login action of the Users Controller looks like: > > public function login() { > if ( > !empty($this->data) && > !empty($this->Auth->data['User']['username']) && > !empty($this->Auth->data['User']['password']) > ) { > $user = $this->User->find( > 'first', array( > 'conditions' => array( > 'User.email' => $this->Auth->data['User']['username'], > 'User.password' => $this->Auth->data['User']['password'] > ), > 'recursive' => -1 > )); > if (!empty($user) && $this->Auth->login($user)) { > if ($this->Auth->autoRedirect) { > $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect()); > } > } else { > $this->Session->setFlash($this->Auth->loginError, $this->Auth- > > > > > > > > >flashElement, array(), 'auth'); > } > } > } -- 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