Question

This is probably my second question regarding authentication. But i am still not able to authenticate my login-form..Hence i have decided to post my code again.
So can anyone please tell me how the authentication is done ????

//this is my index page, where a user logs in
<div align="center">
<h2> ONLINE LIBRARY SYSTEM </h2>
<h4> If you have already registered into our library system . Please Login below </h4?
<br />
</div>
<div class="form">
<fieldset>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Member');
echo $this->Form->input('username');
echo $this->Form->input('password');
echo $this->Form->end('Login');
?>
<h4> If not registerd. Register here <?php echo $this->Html->link('Register     Now',array('controller'=>'members','action'=>'register')); ?> </h4>
</fieldset>
</div>

And what do i need to mention in my index function ??

function index()
{

}

And where exactly i must write/call the Auth component….???
Can anyone please explain me…And Please dont post the link of cookbook…i read it almost 4 times and have nt understood perfectly

Answer 1

The index function is generally called, when the user invokes the controller, without specifying an action. Eg: http://localhost/cake/<some-controller>

. Hence what goes into the index() function, depends, on what you want to display, if the user has not specified a specific action, such as http://localhost/cake/<some-controller>/<some-action> (eg. http://localhost/cake/library/show_book.

As a practice, most developers put the above code (login stuff) into login() function.

The following is some additional information, that you can read up on, wrt to getting the authentication working:

• Adding ‘Auth’ as one of the components;
• Modifying beforeFilter in AppController
• Modify beforeFilter in each of your controllers, if any of the actions should bypass the
  Authentication scheme.