Community Auth for mobile login

You are correct, I do not using CI to display webpage content, just a json response. From within the app I can create a POST, identical in many ways to a form post, then the app creates the UI based upon the json response from CI.

Since Community Auth routes login attempts back to the html login page I could not figure a way to override this process without affecting the normal html login.

To get around this I manually implemented parts of your Authentication.php library into a mobile controller. The login function runs the standard CI form validation and then performs the authentication functions:

Code:

$response = array(
"success" => 0,
"message" => 'Test Response');
                
$this->load->model('Auth_model');
$login_string     = $this->input->post('login_string');
$login_pass   = $this->input->post('login_pass');
/**
* Validate the posted username / email address and password.
*/
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$this->config->load( 'form_validation/auth/login' );
$this->form_validation->set_rules( config_item('login_rules') );
if( $this->form_validation->run() !== FALSE )
{

// Get user table data if username or email address matches a record
if( $auth_data = $this->auth_model->get_auth_data( $login_string ) )
{
// Confirm user
if( ! $this->_user_confirmed( $auth_data, 1, $login_pass ) )
{
$json_response["message"] = "Login failed! Incorrect username or password";

Now I need to see if I can maintain a login while accessing controller functions that uses something like:

if( $this->require_min_level(1) )

It is indeed a hack, while I ponder a better solution.

BTW: I have a control version of Community Auth for CI3 under evaluation for the next major revision of this CI Project.

Thanks for alacrity in responding to my question.