Miles Johnson

Codebase Upgrades: Upgrading AutoLogin v2.2 to v3

The AutoLogin component has upgraded major versions from 2.2 (CakePHP 1.3) to 3.0 (CakePHP 2), now 3.1. Since this is not a backwards compatible change, the 2.0 version can only be used in CakePHP 2. During the conversion process, many things had to change to support the new AuthComponent.

No more automatic username/password field detection

Previously AutoLogin would detect the custom name of your username and password fields by accessing Auth::$fields. Since that property has been removed in favor of Auth::$authenticate, the AutoLogin component received a new property called $fields which mimicked what the Auth's version did. I didn't want to magically guess what the username and password is from Auth::$authenticate and be wrong, so I made it an optional property (you should only need to change it if you are using custom fields).

$this->AutoLogin->fields = array('username' => 'user', 'password' => 'pass');

Seeing as how that was the only major change that may require backwards support, the following minor changes have also occurred: CakeRequest has been implemented anywhere $params were being referenced, the user model is detected via Auth::$authenticate (all first, then Form) in place of the deprecated Auth::$userModel and cookie support has been implemented for localhost environments (may not work in all environments).

If you have any questions, or run into any problems, let me know!