CakePHP - authentication component, using a different table name and column name

Question

Just for organization sake, I wanted to use a different table for the authentication component to check, but it doesn\'t quite work. While I can initially state:

Answer 1

Make sure your database table "core_users" and model "CoreUser" exists.

When you setup component you can put login/logout redirect here.

var $components = array(
        "Auth" => array(
             'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'dashboard', 'action' => 'index'),
             'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'core_users', 'action' => 'login')
              ),
       "Session");

Now in beforeFilter medhod you can put the following

function beforeFilter(){
      $this->Auth->authenticate = array(
         AuthComponent::ALL => array('userModel' => 'CoreUser', 'scope' => array("CoreUser.status" => 1), "fields" => array("username" => "email", "password" => "your_password_field"), 'Form', 'Basic'
                                        );
}

Above example you can ignore status, if you need to pass any other info on the login verification u can use that. Now about you can remove 'Basic' if you only need form validation. I hope this would work .

Answer 2

First, model names are generally singular. Are you sure you didn't mean CoreUser which would look in the core_users table?

Secondly, you can use the email field instead of username by setting the fields key on your auth setup.

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

See the book for more information.