Is it possible to use Auth Component without user model? I want to have only one user of my application so I don’t want to make user model I just want to login with one login/password which would be stored in php file.
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Is it possible to use Auth Component without user model? I want to have only one user of my application so I don’t want to make user model I just want to login with one login/password which would be stored in php file.
The simple answer is No.
The longer answer is that you want to use the model to store this information. Storing user passwords in a PHP file is a very bad idea, in my opinion. You’d be setting your system up to be completely inflexible. What happens when you get 5 more users?
It would be much better to have a
usersdatabase table setup with 1 record then ausersPHP file. And it’ll be a lot less work in the long run since Cake’sAuthComponentis setup to work off a database table.Also, read this post on Stack Overflow about storing passwords. It will provide some insight on why Cake’s
AuthComponentworks the way it does.