CakePHP - authentication component, using a different table name and column name

Question

Just for organization sake, I wanted to use a different table for the authentication component to check, but it doesn\'t quite work. While I can initially state:

Answer 1

First, model names are generally singular. Are you sure you didn't mean CoreUser which would look in the core_users table?

Secondly, you can use the email field instead of username by setting the fields key on your auth setup.

public $components = array(
    'Auth' => array(
        'authenticate' => array(
            'Form' => array(
                'userModel' => 'CoreUser',
                'fields' => array('username' => 'email')
            )
        )
    )
);

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