Question

I’m trying to get authentication working to my liking in a CakePHP app and running into a snag.

I want to let the user login from either the home page or from a dedicated login page. I’m using the Auth component to manage login and right now the login itself works. I am submitting the form on the home page to /Users/Login and it does log them in and create session. The problem is it then redirects the user back to the home page. I’d rather they redirect to the location specified in loginRedirect.

If i login from /users/login directly it does forward to loginRedirect. I think the problem has something to do with posting the form from one page to another page instead of to itself, auth automatically thinks you want to go back to the previous page.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

in the AppController

public function beforeFilter( ) {     $this->Auth->autoRedirect   =   false; } 

in UsersController

public function login( ) {     if( $this->Auth->user( ) )     {         $this->redirect( array(             'controller'    =>  'users' ,             'action'    =>  'index' ,         ));     } } 

Also, if you haven’t already you should move the form into an element, so that you can make absolutely certain that the login form is identical between the 2 login views.