README.md

SimpleAuth

Simple authentication CakePHP plugin for one admin account without using database.

Only 4 easy steps to make authentication work

1. Save the plugin to Plugin/SimpleAuth folder

2. Add to your AppController:

    public $components = array(
    	'Auth' => array(
    		'authenticate' => array(
    			'SimpleAuth.Simple',
    		),
    		'loginAction' => array(
    			'plugin' => 'simple_auth',
    			'controller' => 'auth',
    			'action' => 'login',
    		),
    	)
    );
   

3. And load your plugin with routing enabled (to use pretty /login and /logout URLs):

    CakePlugin::loadAll(array(
    	'SimpleAuth' => array(
    		'routes' => true
    	),
    ));
   

4. Set up your username and password in your Config/core.php

    Configure::write('SimpleAuth', array(
    	'username' => 'YOUR LOGIN INFO',
    	'password' => 'YOUR SECRET PASSWORD',
    	'return' => array(
    		'nickname' => 'MAYBE YOUR NAME HERE?'
    	)
    ));
   

You can change your routing configuration or you can log in and out using ugly url like this:

www.yourapp.com/simple_auth/auth/login
www.yourapp.com/simple_auth/auth/logout

Configuration

1. For prettier links add this to your Config/router.php

    Router::connect('/login', array('plugin' => 'simple_auth', 'controller' => 'auth', 'action' => 'login'));
    Router::connect('/logout', array('plugin' => 'simple_auth', 'controller' => 'auth', 'action' => 'logout'));
   

2. You can addiionally change SimpleAuth.return array value which is then accessible in session Auth.User. Just don't make return value false, it would break the magic. http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#creating-custom-authentication-objects

To do

1. Use some hashing of password for security purposes :X
2. Throw exception when configuration is not set.