The users plugin is for allowing users to register and login manage their profile. It also allows admins to manage the users.
The plugin is thought as a base to extend your app specific users controller and model from.
That it works out of the box does not mean it is thought to be used exactly like it is but to provide you a kick start. You will have to extend the plugin on app level to customize it. Read the how to use it instructions carefully.
The plugin is pretty easy to set up, all you need to do is to copy it to you application plugins folder and load the needed tables. You can create database tables using either the schema shell or the CakeDC Migrations plugin:
./Console/cake schema create users --plugin Users
or
./Console/cake Migrations.migration all --plugin Users
You will also need the CakeDC Search plugin, just grab it and put it into your application's plugin folder.
You can use the plugin as it comes if you're happy with it or, more common, extend your app specific user implementation from the plugin.
The plugin itself is already capable of:
- User registration
- Account verification by a token sent via email
- User login (email / password)
- Password reset based on requesting a token by email and entering a new password
- Simple profiles for users
- User search (requires the CakeDC Search plugin)
- User management using the "admin" section
The default password reset process requires the user to enter his email address, an email is sent to the user with a link and a token. When the user accesses the URL with the token he can enter a new password.
To use the "remember me" checkbox which sets a cookie on the login page you will need to put this code or method call in your AppController::beforeFilter() method.
public function restoreLoginFromCookie() {
$this->Cookie->name = 'Users';
$cookie = $this->Cookie->read('rememberMe');
if (!empty($cookie) && !$this->Auth->user()) {
$data['User'][$this->Auth->fields['username']] = $cookie[$this->Auth->fields['username']];
$data['User'][$this->Auth->fields['password']] = $cookie[$this->Auth->fields['password']];
$this->Auth->login($data);
}
}
The code will read the login credentials from the cookie and log the user in based on that information. Do not forget to change the cookie name or fields to what you are using if you have changed them in your application!
To change the plugins default "from" setting for outgoing emails put this into your bootstrap.php
Configure::write('App.defaultEmail', your@email.com);
If not configured it will use 'noreply@' . env('HTTP_HOST'); as default from email address.
Declare the controller class
App::uses('UsersController', 'Users.Controller');
class AppUsersController extends UsersController {
}
In the case you want to extend also the user model it's required to set the right user class in the beforeFilter() because the controller will use the inherited model which would be Users.User.
public function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->User = ClassRegistry::init('AppUser');
}
You can overwrite the render() method to fall back to the plugin views in the case you want to use some of them
public function render($view = null, $layout = null) {
if (is_null($view)) {
$view = $this->action;
}
$viewPath = substr(get_class($this), 0, strlen(get_class($this)) - 10);
if (!file_exists(APP . 'View' . DS . $viewPath . DS . $view . '.ctp')) {
$this->plugin = 'Users';
} else {
$this->viewPath = $viewPath;
}
return parent::render($view, $layout);
}
To use the basics the plugin already offers but changing some of the settings overwrite the _setupAuth() method in the extending controller.
protected function _setupAuth() {
parent::_setupAuth();
$this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('plugin' => null, 'admin' => false, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'action' => 'login');
}
If you want to disable it simply overwrite it without any body
protected function _setupAuth() {
}
Declare the model
App::uses('User', 'Users.Model');
class AppUser extends User {
public $useTable = 'users';
}
It's important to override the AppUser::useTable property with the 'users' table.
You can override/extend all methods or properties like validation rules to suit your needs.
To remove the second users from /users/users in the url you can use routes.
The plugin itself comes with a routes file but you need to explicitly load them.
CakePlugin::load('Users', array('routes' => true));
List of the used routes:
Router::connect('/users', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users'));
Router::connect('/users/index/*', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users'));
Router::connect('/users/:action', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users'));
Router::connect('/users/users/:action', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users'));
Router::connect('/login/*', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login'));
Router::connect('/logout/*', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'logout'));
Router::connect('/register/*', array('plugin' => 'users', 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'add'));
If you're extending the plugin remove the plugin from the route by setting it to null and replace the controller with your controller extending the plugins users controller.
Feel free to change the routes here or add others as you need for your application.
To modify the templates as needed copy them to
/app/View/Plugin/users/Emails/
Note that you will have to overwrite any view that is linking to the plugin like the email verification email.
If the Utils plugin is present the users model will auto attach and use the sluggable behavior.
To not create slugs for a new user records put this in your configuration: Configure::write('Users.disableSlugs', true);
- PHP version: PHP 5.2+
- CakePHP version: Cakephp 2.0
- CakeDC Utils plugin
- CakeDC Search plugin
For support and feature request, please visit the Users Plugin Support Site.
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