Question

I am working through the “Cake PHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook,” CH. 1 — the section “Allowing logins with username or email”.

The problem is that when you login using your email, even if you are successful, the flash message for an “Invalid Account” has already been set by the Auth component. So I need to unset that message in the login action of the users controller, after a successful login by email. Setting it to the empty string does not work, as an empty orange bar is displayed.

Is there a way to completely unset a flash message?

Thanks,
Jonah

Answer 1

To unset a flash message with CakePHP 1.3, using the SessionComponent within a controller:

$this->Session->delete('Message.flash');