Question

I am new to CakePHP, and despite searching high and low I can’t find an answer to what seems like a trivial problem. The issue is that after logging in through my UserController I am losing the data found in $this->Auth->user() on all other Controllers. Any views not associated with UserController will always have null data and $this->Auth->loggedIn() will return false.

In my AppController class, I have attempted to save the data into a variable inside beforeFilter() so that I may check the variable in my views, but it doesn’t make a difference. Here is the relavent code for my UserController and AppController classes:

class AppController extends Controller {

// Pass settings in $components array
public $components = array(
    'Session',
    'Auth' => array(
        'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'home', 'action' => 'index'),
        'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'home', 'action' => 'index')
    )
);

public function beforeFilter() {
    //debug($this->Auth->user());
    $this->set('loggedIn', $this->Auth->user());    

    }

}

Users class:

App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');

class UsersController extends AppController {

public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form');
public $name = 'Users';

public function beforeFilter() {
    parent::beforeFilter();
}

public function login() {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        if ($this->Auth->login()) {
            return $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('Username or password is incorrect'), 'default', array(), 'auth');
        }
    }
}

public function logout() {
    return $this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
}

}   

I have also made sure to use parent::beforeFilter() in my other controllers.

Answer 1

I believe I found the solution. In my HomeController, which was the page I was always viewing after I logged in, it seems as though there was some invisible character following the closing php declaration ?> (which was not needed either) so I deleted it and the ?> and voila, everything is working as expected.

I was tipped off that something was amiss after I tried manually using session_start() in my layout and I was given an error about the line after ?> in the HomeController class.