Question

I’m using CakePHP’s Auth component and it’s in my app_controller.php.

Now I want to allow specific views from the pages controller. How do I do that?

Answer 1

Copy the pages_controller.php file in cake/libs/controllers to your app/controllers/ dir. Then you can modify it to do anything you want. With the auth component, the typical way to allow specific access is like this:

class PagesController extends AppController {
 ...
 function beforeFilter() {
  $this->Auth->allow( 'action1', 'allowedAction2' );
 }
 ...

I recommend highly copying the file to your controllers dir, rather than editing it in place, because it will make upgrading cake much easier, and less likely that you accidentally overwrite some stuff.