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Class FormAuthenticate
An authentication adapter for AuthComponent. Provides the ability to authenticate using POST data. Can be used by configuring AuthComponent to use it via the AuthComponent::$authenticate config.
$this->Auth->authenticate = [
    'Form' => [
        'scope' => ['Users.active' => 1]
    ]
]
When configuring FormAuthenticate you can pass in config to which fields, model and additional conditions are used. See FormAuthenticate::$_config for more information.
- Cake\Auth\BaseAuthenticate implements Cake\Event\EventListenerInterface uses Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
 Cake\Auth\FormAuthenticate Cake\Auth\FormAuthenticate
Method Detail
_checkFieldssource protected
_checkFields( Cake\Network\Request $request , array $fields )Checks the fields to ensure they are supplied.
Parameters
- Cake\Network\Request- $request
- The request that contains login information.
- 
     array $fields
- The fields to be checked.
Returns
booleanFalse if the fields have not been supplied. True if they exist.
authenticatesource public
authenticate( Cake\Network\Request $request , Cake\Network\Response $response )Authenticates the identity contained in a request. Will use the config.userModel, and config.fields to find POST data that is used to find a matching record in the config.userModel. Will return false if there is no post data, either username or password is missing, or if the scope conditions have not been met.
Parameters
- Cake\Network\Request- $request
- The request that contains login information.
- Cake\Network\Response- $response
- Unused response object.
Returns
mixedFalse on login failure. An array of User data on success.
Methods inherited from Cake\Auth\BaseAuthenticate
__constructsource public
__construct( Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry $registry , array $config [] )Constructor
Parameters
- Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry- $registry
- The Component registry used on this request.
- 
     array $configoptional []
- Array of config to use.
_findUsersource protected
_findUser( string $username , string|null $password null )Find a user record using the username and password provided.
Input passwords will be hashed even when a user doesn't exist. This helps mitigate timing attacks that are attempting to find valid usernames.
Parameters
- 
     string $username
- The username/identifier.
- 
     string|null $passwordoptional null
- The password, if not provided password checking is skipped and result of find is returned.
Returns
boolean|arrayEither false on failure, or an array of user data.
_querysource protected
_query( string $username )Get query object for fetching user from database.
Parameters
- 
     string $username
- The username/identifier.
Returns
Cake\ORM\Query\Cake\ORM\Query
getUsersource public
getUser( Cake\Network\Request $request )Get a user based on information in the request. Primarily used by stateless authentication systems like basic and digest auth.
Parameters
- Cake\Network\Request- $request
- Request object.
Returns
mixedEither false or an array of user information
implementedEventssource public
implementedEvents( )Returns a list of all events that this authenticate class will listen to.
An authenticate class can listen to following events fired by AuthComponent:
- Auth.afterIdentify- Fired after a user has been identified using one of configured authenticate class. The callback function should have signature like- afterIdentify(Event $event, array $user)when- $useris the identified user record.
- Auth.logout- Fired when AuthComponent::logout() is called. The callback function should have signature like- logout(Event $event, array $user)where- $useris the user about to be logged out.
Returns
arrayList of events this class listens to. Defaults to
[].Implementation of
Cake\Event\EventListenerInterface::implementedEvents()
  needsPasswordRehashsource public
needsPasswordRehash( )Returns whether or not the password stored in the repository for the logged in user requires to be rehashed with another algorithm
Returns
booleanbool
passwordHashersource public
passwordHasher( )Return password hasher object
Returns
Cake\Auth\AbstractPasswordHasherPassword hasher instance
Throws
RuntimeExceptionIf password hasher class not found or it does not extend AbstractPasswordHasher
unauthenticatedsource public
unauthenticated( Cake\Network\Request $request , Cake\Network\Response $response )Handle unauthenticated access attempt. In implementation valid return values can be:
- Null - No action taken, AuthComponent should return appropriate response.
- Cake\Network\Response - A response object, which will cause AuthComponent to simply return that response.
Parameters
- Cake\Network\Request- $request
- A request object.
- Cake\Network\Response- $response
- A response object.
Methods used from Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
_configDeletesource protected
_configDelete( string $key )Delete a single config key
Parameters
- 
     string $key
- Key to delete.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\Exceptionif attempting to clobber existing config
_configReadsource protected
_configRead( string|null $key )Read a config variable
Parameters
- 
     string|null $key
- Key to read.
Returns
mixedmixed
_configWritesource protected
_configWrite( string|array $key , mixed $value , boolean|string $merge false )Write a config variable
Parameters
- 
     string|array $key
- Key to write to.
- 
     mixed $value
- Value to write.
- 
     boolean|string $mergeoptional false
- True to merge recursively, 'shallow' for simple merge, false to overwrite, defaults to false.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\Exceptionif attempting to clobber existing config
configsource public
config( string|array|null $key null , mixed|null $value null , boolean $merge true )Usage
Reading the whole config:
$this->config();
Reading a specific value:
$this->config('key');
Reading a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key');
Setting a specific value:
$this->config('key', $value);
Setting a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);
Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Parameters
- 
     string|array|null $keyoptional null
- The key to get/set, or a complete array of configs.
- 
     mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
- 
     boolean $mergeoptional true
- Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.
Returns
mixedConfig value being read, or the object itself on write operations.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\ExceptionWhen trying to set a key that is invalid.
configShallowsource public
configShallow( string|array $key , mixed|null $value null )Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike config() which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.
Setting a specific value:
$this->config('key', $value);
Setting a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);
Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Parameters
- 
     string|array $key
- The key to set, or a complete array of configs.
- 
     mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
Returns
mixed$this The object itself.
Properties inherited from Cake\Auth\BaseAuthenticate
$_defaultConfigsource
protected array
Default config for this object.
- fieldsThe fields to use to identify a user by.
- userModelThe alias for users table, defaults to Users.
- finderThe finder method to use to fetch user record. Defaults to 'all'.
- passwordHasherPassword hasher class. Can be a string specifying class name or an array containing- classNamekey, any other keys will be passed as config to the class. Defaults to 'Default'.
- Options scopeandcontainhave been deprecated since 3.1. Use custom finder instead to modify the query to fetch user record.
[
    'fields' => [
        'username' => 'username',
        'password' => 'password'
    ],
    'userModel' => 'Users',
    'scope' => [],
    'finder' => 'all',
    'contain' => null,
    'passwordHasher' => 'Default'
]$_needsPasswordRehashsource
protected boolean
Whether or not the user authenticated by this class requires their password to be rehashed with another algorithm.
false$_registrysource
protected Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry
A Component registry, used to get more components.
Properties used from Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
$_configInitializedsource
protected boolean
Whether the config property has already been configured with defaults
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