ACL in plugin cakephp application - cakephp

Question

I started creating plugin for my application, and I encountered one problem. Since application is ACL controlled it's seems that that applies to plugin also.
I want some actions of plugin to be accessible only to registered users and others to everyone. The problem is that I get redirected to plugin.UsersController's login action. I dont have that controller in my plugin.
Any ideas how to solve this?

Answer 1

Array urls and CakePHP routing
AuthComponent::$loginRedirect is the url to redirect users to to login. If it's defined as an array, it will obey the normal routing rules for CakePHP that is:
$url = Router::url(array(
'action' => 'index'
));
This is the current route-prefix, plugin and controller - with the action index
$url = Router::url(array(
'controller' => 'foos',
'action' => 'index'
));
This is the current prefix and plugin - with the controller foos and the action index
$url = Router::url(array(
'plugin' => null,
'controller' => 'foos',
'action' => 'index'
));
This is the current prefix - with no plugin, the controller foos and the action index
$url = Router::url(array(
'prefix' => null,
'plugin' => null,
'controller' => 'foos',
'action' => 'index'
));
This defines all defaults - no route prefix, no plugin, the controller foos and the action index
Configure Auth appropriately
Therefore, to configure the auth redirect - just ensure to define the plugin and routing prefix:
public function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array(
'prefix' => null,
'plugin' => null,
'controller' => 'users',
'action' => 'login'
);
parent::beforeFilter();
}
OR define it as a string:
public function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = '/users/login';
parent::beforeFilter();
}