Question

I am trying to automatically register users. You enter an email address and it sends the user a password. Sounds simple enough, right? Here are a bunch of things that I’ve tried in my add action, but none of them work (as indicated).

if (!empty($this->data)) {
    $this->User->create();

    $random_pass = $this->Auth->password($this->generatePassword());

    // Doesn't work:
    $user_data['User'] = $this->data['User'];
    $user_data['User']['password'] = $random_pass;
    if ($this->User->save($user_data)) { /* ... */ }

    // Doesn't work:
    $this->User->set('password', $random_pass);
    if ($this->User->save($this->data)) { /* ... */ }

    // Doesn't work:
    $this->data['User']['password'] = $random_pass;
    if ($this->User->save($this->data)) { /* ... */ }

    // Doesn't work:
    $this->data['User'][0]['password'] = $random_pass; 
    if ($this->User->saveAll($this->data)) { /* ... */ }

}

According to Why is the CakePHP password field is empty when trying to access it using $this->data? it’s because the Auth component is removing the password. Seems common enough, no? So how do I get around it?

More information

I’m using this function to generate the password. The add view only has three fields, first_name, last_name, and email (which is assigned to the username field in the Auth component).

Answer 1

JohnP answered this question in the comments. I had some junk in the beforeSave action. Removed and now it’s working perfectly. Thanks again JohnP!