The Authentication Library 1.0.6

[eluser]Adam Griffiths[/eluser]
[quote author="squarebones" date="1247183918"]All right. To check this library out thoroughly, I did a clean install of CI 1.7.1 without any extras, and without changing the name of any folders. I set up the config for my MAMP environment (base_url). I get the welcome message. That is good. Means CI is running right.

Now I go through the Library installation again. Copy all the files over. Add the routes defs to the routes.php file. Set up the database locally with standard table names. Just as it should be. And guess what? I still get 404 errors trying to access index.php/admin/register and index.php/admin/login. There's nothering there. The admin controller does not have a method called register or login, so how is this supposed to work? There has to be methods in the controller or CI will throw a 404 each time, or am I not privy to some secret way of getting controllers to load methods that aren't explicity defined in the controller?

That would be neat trick and one I would remember in the future.

So far, this library is a dud. I would really like to get it working as it seems very thorough, though I did find some inconsistencies. Such as... the name of the user and group tables are set in the Auth config file, but in MY_Controller and Usermodel both, the name of the users table is set explicitly in the db queries... can't have it both ways, right? If a user changes the names of the tables in the config file, that blows the functionality of MY_Controller and Usermodel, right? Just checking...

I think maybe something got busted with the update. Perhaps Adam can take a look at his files and figure out what is going wrong and why this thing doesn't appear to work from the outset.

Too bad.[/quote]

To get a few things out of the way first…the MY_Controller.php file has the Application class which has the login and register functions. By extending the Application class all of the Application classes functions are accessible from the admin controller. This is a simple element of Object Oriented programming, so no secret tricks!

As for the database names, the only place I have seen where I have missed using the variable for the database name is the Model. This is a fair point and I'm fixing this issue right no by adding two functions to the helper. The updated helper and model are in the Github repo.

One thing I noticed was that you were navigating to index.php/admin/register when you should just go to index.php/register. Maybe this is the case and hopefully that works for you.

If not I'd appreciate an email off you explaining your setup so I can fix anything on my end if needs be. *email removed*


Thanks.