oxenti/user

User plugin for CakePHP

OxenTI User API plugin for CakePHP 3

This plugin contains a package with API methods for managing Users on a CakePHP 3 application. This plugin implements Authentication and Authorization tasks., _(*1)

Requirements

• CakePHP 3.0+

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer., _(*2)

The recommended way to install composer packages is:, _(*3)

composer require oxenti/user

Configuration

In your app's config/bootstrap.php add:, _(*4)

// In config/bootstrap.php
Plugin::load('User');

or using cake's console:, _(*5)

./bin/cake plugin load User

In your app's 'config/app.php' add this to your Datasources array:, _(*6)

    'oxenti_user' => [
        'className' => 'Cake\Database\Connection',
        'driver' => 'Cake\Database\Driver\Mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'ỳour_db_host',
        'username' => 'username',
        'password' => 'password',
        'database' => 'databse_name',
        'encoding' => 'utf8',
        'timezone' => 'UTC',
        'cacheMetadata' => true,
        'log' => false,
        'quoteIdentifiers' => false,
    ],
    'test_oxenti_user' => [
        'className' => 'Cake\Database\Connection',
        'driver' => 'Cake\Database\Driver\Mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'ỳour_db_host',
        'username' => 'username',
        'password' => 'password',
        'database' => 'databse_name',
        'encoding' => 'utf8',
        'timezone' => 'UTC',
        'cacheMetadata' => true,
        'log' => false,
        'quoteIdentifiers' => false,
    ],

In your app's 'AppController.php' set up the Auth componet:, _(*7)

    ...
    $this->loadComponent('Auth', [
        'authorize' => ['Controller'],
        'authenticate' => [
            'Form' => [
                'userModel' => 'User.Users',
                'fields' => [
                    'username' => 'email',
                    'password' => 'password'
                ]
            ],
            'User.Jwt' => [
                'parameter' => '_token',
                'userModel' => 'User.Users',
                'scope' => ['Users.is_active' => 1],
                'fields' => [
                    'id' => 'id'
                ],
            ]
        ],
        'storage' => 'Memory',
        'unauthorizedRedirect' => false
    ]);
    ...

Add the beforeFilter and isAuthorized methods:, _(*8)

    public function beforeFilter(Event $event)
    {
        $this->Auth->deny(['*']);
        $this->Auth->allow(['display']);
    }

    public function isAuthorized($user)
    {
        return false;
    }

Configuration files

Move the 'user.php' config file from the plugin's config folder to your app's config folder., _(*9)

On your app's 'bootstrap.php' add the user configuration file:, _(*10)

    ...
    try {
        Configure::config('default', new PhpConfig());
        Configure::load('app', 'default', false);
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        die($e->getMessage() . "\n");
    }

    Configure::load('user', 'default');
    ...

Using extrenal Associations

If you want to associate the Address table with other tables on your application, use the address.php configuration file setting the 'relations' entry to your needs., _(*11)