Using email instead of username in CakePHP Auth Component

Question

I am working on cakephp 2.x . my problem is i dont want to use username for logging .. i am taking the email and password from the user and verify this email and password fr

Answer 1

You can configure it with:

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

See also Configuring Authentication handlers in the cookbook.