Question

I’m running Kohana 3, and having a hard time understanding the Auth module, or even if it’s what I need. Basically I want to create a basic user profile site with basic username/password protection.

How do I take my existing controllers…

class Controller_Profile extends Controller
{
    function action_index( $user_id )
    {
        // User should already be authenticated by here I think
    }
}

…and use them with some sort of authentication system

Answer 1

For Kohana 3 you’ll want to do your check in before and not __construct like JIStone suggests.

public function before()
{
    parent::before();

    // This automatically checks for an auto login cookie (thanks kemo).
    if ( ! Auth::instance()->logged_in())
    {
        // Redirect to a login page (or somewhere else).
        $this->request->redirect('');
    }
}

Simple enough to understand. You can put this into a controller and have all the controllers that need authentication to extend that.