Community Auth - a database error when logging in

I have installed Community Auth with CodeIgniter 3.1.4 and I got the same error : 

Column 'id' cannot be null [...] Filename: third_party/community_auth/models/Auth_model.php Line Number: 90

After reading this thread, I checked my CI session configuration (it was OK) and then, I started to debug.

It seems that after this line (libraries/Authentication.php:693

PHP Code:

$session_id = $this->CI->session->sess_regenerate( config_item('sess_regenerate_destroy') ); 


the value of $session_id is null.

But, if I replace this line by :

PHP Code:

$this->CI->session->sess_regenerate( config_item('sess_regenerate_destroy') );
$session_id = $this->CI->session->session_id; 


 everything is working well.

Do you have any idea why I get this error ?

I have installed Community Auth with CodeIgniter 3.1.4 and I got the same error : 

Column 'id' cannot be null [...] Filename: third_party/community_auth/models/Auth_model.php Line Number: 90

After reading this thread, I checked my CI session configuration (it was OK) and then, I started to debug.

It seems that after this line (libraries/Authentication.php:693

PHP Code:

$session_id = $this->CI->session->sess_regenerate( config_item('sess_regenerate_destroy') ); 


the value of $session_id is null.

But, if I replace this line by :

PHP Code:

$this->CI->session->sess_regenerate( config_item('sess_regenerate_destroy') );
$session_id = $this->CI->session->session_id; 


 everything is working well.

Do you have any idea why I get this error ?

What is your session config look like? Have you set base_url in config/config? Did you properly set up your encryption key?

Expert Website Development - Temecula, CA
Community Auth For CodeIgniter 3

What is your session config look like? Have you set base_url in config/config? Did you properly set up your encryption key?

Thanks for your reply !

My session config :

PHP Code:

$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_save_path'] = sys_get_temp_dir();
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = FALSE; 


base_url is set (I use it with the url helper) and the encryption key is set like this : 

PHP Code:

$config['encryption_key'] = hex2bin('8ef3f3cf7643c5d5a29e307c0c1714f4'); 


What is your session config look like? Have you set base_url in config/config? Did you properly set up your encryption key?

Thanks for your reply !

My session config :

PHP Code:

$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_save_path'] = sys_get_temp_dir();
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = FALSE; 


base_url is set (I use it with the url helper) and the encryption key is set like this : 

PHP Code:

$config['encryption_key'] = hex2bin('8ef3f3cf7643c5d5a29e307c0c1714f4'); 


 Instead of

Code:

sys_get_temp_dir()

Try to hard code in the path. For whatever reason, I've seen where this function did not work.

You need to prove that regular CI sessions are working, because if they are you wouldn't have this problem.

Expert Website Development - Temecula, CA
Community Auth For CodeIgniter 3

What is your session config look like? Have you set base_url in config/config? Did you properly set up your encryption key?

Thanks for your reply !

My session config :

PHP Code:

$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_save_path'] = sys_get_temp_dir();
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = FALSE; 


base_url is set (I use it with the url helper) and the encryption key is set like this : 

PHP Code:

$config['encryption_key'] = hex2bin('8ef3f3cf7643c5d5a29e307c0c1714f4'); 


 Instead of

Code:

sys_get_temp_dir()

Try to hard code in the path. For whatever reason, I've seen where this function did not work.

You need to prove that regular CI sessions are working, because if they are you wouldn't have this problem.

Here is how I got mine to work.

Step 1: 
Download Codeigniter 3.1.4 from there website.

Step 2: 
Goto phpmyadmin and create a database. 

Step 3
Open config/config.php and edit the following:
 * base_url must point to your server since I am using localhost mine will be 'http://localhost/auth/'
 * index_page remove the 'index.php' so that it just shows ''
 * enable_hooks should be set to TRUE
 * encryption_key we will skip this and come back to it later
  * sess_driver change it to 'database'
  * sess_save_path remove NULL and enter 'ci_sessions'
 * global_xss_filtering change that to TRUE

Step 4:
Now go to phpadmin and click on your database then click on SQL and run the following code:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ci_sessions` (
       `id` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
       `ip_address` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
       `timestamp` int(10) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
       `data` blob NOT NULL,
       KEY `ci_sessions_timestamp` (`timestamp`)
);

After that completed click on SQL again and run the following:

ALTER TABLE ci_sessions ADD PRIMARY KEY (id);

Step 5: 
Now go to config/database.php and enter the details for your database

Step 6:
Now open config/autoload.php and edit the following:
 * in libraries add the  'session', 'database', 'email'

---NOW TIME TO INSTALL COMMUNITY AUTH------

Step 1:
Download community auth from there site and extract the contents

Step 2: 
open the extracted folder click on skunkbad-community-auth-for-codeigniter-3-28955ea80f13 ->application->third_party and select the communtiy_auth folder and copy that into your_codeigniter_directory->application->third_party

Step 3:
Go to your_codeigniter_directory->third_party->community_auth. Go ahead and open the community_auth folder.

Step 4:
Select the following folders and copy them
 * config
 * controllers
 * core
 * helpers
 * hooks
 * libraries
 * models
 * views
Then go to your_codeigniter_directory->application and right click and select paste. 

Step 5:

go to phpmyadmin and import the sql file located in third_party->community_auth->sql

The name of the file will be install.sql

Step 6:

next go to config/routes.php and add the following at the bottom:

$route[LOGIN_PAGE] = 'examples/login' 

Step 7:

Now goto config/hooks.php and add the following: 

$hook['pre_system'] = array(
    'function' => 'auth_constants',
    'filename' => 'auth_constants.php',
    'filepath' => 'hooks'
);
$hook['post_system'] = array(
    'function' => 'auth_sess_check',
    'filename' => 'auth_sess_check.php',
    'filepath' => 'hooks'
);


Step 8:
Go to your_codeigniter_directory you should see your application folder and system folder. In here you are going to create a .htaccess file and add the following:


# MAKE SURE TO LEAVE THE DENY LIST AT THE TOP OF THE FILE !!!
# BEGIN DENY LIST --
# END DENY LIST --

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

This will remove the index.php from the url

Step 9:
goto http://your_codeigniter_directory/key_creator so that you can generate the key encryption

Here I just selected the codeigniter standard 128 bit encryption. This one will be located at the very top of the list. A new page will open giving you the key copy the entire key 

Now go back to config/config.php and enter that key into the encryption_key filed. I just normall paste it and add // in front of the old one to comment it out.

Step 10:

Now go to application->controller->Examples.php and edit line 195, 196, and 197 with your details to create the admin account. Make sure that you change auth_level = '9'

Step 11:

now go to url http://your_codeigniter_directory/examples/create_user 

you will see a message showing that the user has been created

Step 12:

now go to http://your_codeigniter_directory/examples/ 

you should get a message saying that your logged in

Step 13:

now go to http://your_codeigniter_directory/examples/logout

That will log you out.

Guys, if you're on Linux or Mac, the dev installer script is awesome. Full install is accomplished in about 5 seconds. I'm not kidding.

Expert Website Development - Temecula, CA
Community Auth For CodeIgniter 3

For those still having problems I created a repository that has codeigniter 3 and community auth installed.

https://bitbucket.org/kwat3173/codeignit...downloads/