CakePHP 2.0 and mobile application authentication

Question

I\'m going nuts over here! I\'ve got a website I am making in CakePHP that will form the back end of a mobile application. It is not a mobile website, it\'s designed purely

Answer 1

public function beforeFilter() {
    parent::beforeFilter();
    $this->Auth->allow('index','view');
    $this->set('logged_in', $this->Auth->loggedIn());
    $this->set('current_user',$this->Auth->user());
    if($this->name == 'Specific') {
            // for the specific controller
            $this->Auth->authenticate = array('Basic');
    } else {
            // everything else
    }
}

checkout KVZ's rest plugin it may be of interest https://github.com/kvz/cakephp-rest-plugin