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

I guess you could set a loginAction in AppController and then inside this action you could do:

$this->redirect(array('controller'=>'someController','action'=>'someAction','admin'=>true));

Answer 2

I have another solution. Admin panel for website has another graphics, javasctipt etc, so I do in my app folders:

app_name
  +Model
  +Plugin
  +admin
  +front

Yes admin is in another folder, so I can for example set another cookie to login in admin area only plugins and model are the same. This folder structure needs some configuration in bootstrap.php:

  App::build(array(
      'Plugin' => array(ROOT . DS . 'Plugin' . DS),
      'Model' => array(ROOT . DS . 'Model' . DS),
      'Model/Behavior' => array(ROOT . DS . 'Model' . DS . 'Behavior' . DS),
  ));

Maybe is crazy for you but i prefer this solution that use admin routes.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Try This

Your config/routes.php

Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'dashboard' ));

Appcontroller

class AppController extends Controller {

public $components = array(
    'Acl',
    'Session',
    'Auth' => array(
        'authenticate' => array(
            'Form' => array( 
                'userModel' => 'User',
                 'fields' => array(
                    'username' => 'user_name',
                    'password' => 'password'
                    )
                )
            ),
        'loginAction' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login'),
                    'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'mysettings'),
        'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login'),
        'authError' => 'You don\'t have access here.',
                /*
                'loginAction' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'forgot_password'),
                'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'dashboard'),
                'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'forgot_password'),
                'authError' => 'You don\'t have access here.',
                */
        ),

);

Usercontroller

class UsersController extends AppController {

/**
 * Components
 *
 * @var array
 */ 
public function beforeFilter() {
    parent::beforeFilter();
    $this->Auth->allow('login','logout');
}

}