othAuth 0.2 released

UPDATE: Please download the package from the snippets here
In the menu:

• Bug Fixes
• Some Refractoring
• New Features

The major new feature is CAKE_ADMIN routing support. That doesn't mean that the old version couldn't work with CAKE_ADMIN, but it was not automatic ( e.g redirections redirect to /controller/admin_action instead of /admin/controller/action ), you can also specify CAKE_ADMIN routing in the permission list of a group, previously you'de specify controller/admin_action, now you can specify admin/controller/action, admin/controller/*, or just admin if want to have access to all CAKE_ADMIN actions

Another important feature is a simplified method for accessing user/group/permission stored in the session, given the fact that othAuth uses a hashkey (the one you specify when you init the component). to get othAuth information you need to do something like:

$auth_sess_name = 'othAuth_'.$this->othAuth->hashkey;
$user_data = $_SESSION[$auth_sess_name];
$user_data is now an array, containing all the information related to the user logged in print_r($user_data); to get an overview of how it's stored
to get the user name, it should be something like $user_data['User']['name']
to get the group name $user_data['Group']['name'];

othAuth now includes a methods to simplify all this, a helper to be used in the view scope is available too: $othAuth->user('name') $othAuth->group('name') etc..

OthAuth For CakePHP

I’ve made an Authentication Component for CakePHP
you can download it in the snippet page at CakeForge

Comments are welcome.

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