CakePHP admin section routing and redirecting

Question

I\'m struggling with the concept of creating an admin section in CakePHP-project. (version 2.3.5)

I have uncommented the line in Config/core.php:

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Answer 1

try this

    public $components = array(
    'Auth' => array(
        'autoRedirect' => false,
        'loginRedirect' => array(
            'admin' => true,
            'controller' => 'dashboard',
            'action' => 'index',
        ),

        'loginAction' => array(
            'controller' => 'users',
            'action' => 'login',
            'admin' => false,
            'plugin' => false,
        ),
    ),
);
    // Now the before Filter which tells it its okay to go to index/view/or display actions.
    public function beforeFilter() {    
    // Allow public views
    $this->Auth->allow('index', 'view', 'display');
    }

for the user login you'd do something like this:

    public function login() {
    $this->set('title_for_layout', 'User Sign In');
     if ($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put')) {
        if ($this->Auth->login()) {
                return $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash('Username or password is incorrect', 'flash_bad');
        }
    }
}

any methods you want to access you'd do public function admin_index, admin_view admin_settings, etc. so that in the controller of widgets the route would be /admin/widgets/index /admin/widgets/index and so forth and so on. The trick to allowing other pages to be rendered without auth is just putting the $this->Auth->allow in the beforeFilter.