Login Script in 2.4.2 is not working

Question

I am new to cakephp. I have a problom while login. With wrong name and password redirects to login home page.

UsersController.php

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Answer 1

You are using AuthComponent::login() wrong, you are only supposed to pass data to it in case you want to manually login a user, ie without automatic authentication.

If you want to use the components authentication functionality just call $this->Auth->login()

See also: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#identifying-users-and-logging-them-in

In 2.x $this->Auth->login($this->request->data) will log the user in with whatever data is posted, whereas in 1.3 $this->Auth->login($this->data) would try to identify the user first and only log in when successful.

Answer 2

usercontroller

public function beforeFilter() {
        parent::beforeFilter();
        $this->Auth->allow('login','logout');
    }



public function login()
    {
       $this->layout= 'login';

       if ($this->request->is('post')) {

            if ($this->Auth->login()) {

                        $this->redirect('/users');
                        else {

                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid email or password, please try again'));

            }
        }
        else{
            if($this->Auth->loggedIn())
                $this->redirect('index');
        }
    }
}

AppController

class AppController extends Controller {

public $components = array(

    'Session',
    'Auth' => array(
        'authenticate' => array(
            'Form' => array( 
                'userModel' => 'User',
                 'fields' => array(
                    'username' => 'user_name',
                    'password' => 'password'
                    )
                )
            ),
        'loginAction' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login'),
                    'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'dashboard'),
        'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login'),
        'authError' => 'You don\'t have access here.',
                /*
                'loginAction' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'forgot_password'),
                'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'dashboard'),
                'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'forgot_password'),
                'authError' => 'You don\'t have access here.',
                */
        ),

);