Re: Registration Question - Two Different Users (Not using User table)

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Nathan Pierce <heliusdesign@gmail.com> wrote:

 

If I post the form, I get sent to /users/login.

You need to tell Auth that this action doesn't require login. Create a beforeFilter in StudentsController:

function beforeFilter() {

parent::beforeFilter();

$this->Auth->allow('register');

}

Add any other public actions. You can pass any number of strings as params, or an array of strings.

What I'm trying to do is have the form register a user to the students table in my database. I will have to have another form on the site to register teachers and I want to keep them in separate databases.

Do you mean separate tables? Or databases?

 

Problem is, all of the auth stuff is sent to UserController, which I don't want to use. I want to pass all Student login form stuff to the StudentController and all Teacher to the TeacherController.

In short, how do I achieve this? How do I force cakephp to use something other than the UserController to handle everything? If you need further clarification, please ask.

You can tell Auth what its "user model" should be:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#configuring-authentication-handlers

You would then include the AuthComponent in both the controllers, and NOT the AppController.

However, I have no idea how/if this would work for your other controllers -- those which both Students and Teachers would be accessing. I wouldn't be surprised if Cake could handle it, but neither would I be optimistic. I suggest saving yourself a lot of pain by creating a User model through which everyone is authenticated and which both Students and Teachers extend. Have a look online for multi-table inheritance in Cake. Or you could even do it without inheritance:

CREATE TABLE users (

    id INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

    created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,

    modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,

email VARCHAR(64) NULL,

password CHARACTER(40) NULL,

model VARCHAR(24) NOT NULL,

foreign_key INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,

...

class User extends AppModel

{

public $hasOne = array(

'Teacher' => array(

'className'  => 'Teacher',

'foreignKey' => 'user_id',

'dependent' => true

),

'Student' => array(

'className'  => 'Student',

'foreignKey' => 'user_id',

'dependent' => true

)

);

// ...

}

class Teacher extends AppModel

{

public $belongsTo = array(

'User' => array(

)

);

// ...

}

Just allow NULL in teachers & students user_id column, save the record, then create the User, then save the user_id. Upon login, check $this->Auth->user('model') and do $model = $this->User->{$model_name}->find(...) -- passing in $this->Auth->user('foreign_key') -- and save that to the session.

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