Changing the default login setup with CakePHP

Question

I have something that I thought was a relatively common problem, but after researching the issue, it appears not to be as easy as thought.

I have a CakePHP application (using version 1.2.7) and I am trying to change the standard login procedure using the Auth Component. I would like to use a persistent login screen ( like this Jquery plugin : http://web-kreation.com/demos/Sliding_login_panel_jquery/ ) which my users would use to login.

In Cake terminology, I would like to be able to login to the Auth component from the /pages/home screen but Cakephp keeps redirecting to the /users/login.

In My App Controller :

 function beforeFilter()
 {
  ...
  $this->Auth->loginAction = array( 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login' );
  $this->Auth->loginRedirect = array( 'controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'home' );
  $this->Auth->logoutRedirect  = array( 'controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'home' );
  $this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;
  ...
 }

If I change the loginAction to /pages/home. the login does not work, in fact it does not even post to the /users/login method. Not exactly sure what has happened.

My question is this :

How do I make a login form located at www.EXAMPLE.com/ which will return to the same location on successful and unsuccessful login?

I would prefer not to have it redirect to /users/login or have that show up in the URL at all.

Answer 1

If you set $this->Auth->autoRedirect to false then you must redirect manually in your login() method. Take a look at this also.

Answer 2

To change where the form submits just changed the submit url in your form, it's that simple.

$form->create('User', array('url'=>array('controller'=>'users','action'=>'login')))

Then you can load your page, and check the action attribute, and you should see your /users/login :)