CakePHP Auth component redirect issue

Question

I am having trouble getting the Auth component do the redirects I want in a CakePHP 1.2.6 app.

I have a login form that appears on all pages and I want to keep the

Answer 1

Put this code to your controller:

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

and, add this for the login page:

function login() {
    if($this->Auth->User()) {
        $this->redirect(array('action'=>'welcome'), null, true);
    }
}

Answer 2

Add parent::beforeFilter(); to beforeFilter in the user controller:

function beforeFilter() {
    $this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;
    parent::beforeFilter();
}

You can also replace the redirect with this to the login method of your user controller:

$this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());

Auth->redirect() returns the url where the user landed before being taken to the login page or Auth->loginRedirect.