Cakephp 2.0 Authentication using email instead of username

Question

In my view I have:

Form->create(\'User\', array(\"controller\" => \"Users\", \"action\" => \"login\", \"method\" => \"pos         


        

Answer 1

I believe the problem is:

function beforeFilter(){
    $this->Auth->fields = array(
        'username' => 'email',
        'password' => 'password'
    );
}

That was how custom login fields were specified in CakePHP 1.3. CakePHP 2.0 instead requires you to specify these fields in the public $components = array(...);. The 1.3 API shows that Auth has a $fields property, but the 2.0 API shows that there is no longer a $fields property. So you must:

public $components = array(
    'Session',
    'Auth' => array(
        'authenticate' => array(
            'Form' => array(
                'fields' => array('username' => 'email')
            )
        )
    )
);

More information can be found at: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#configuring-authentication-handlers

Please tell me how it works out!