Authenticating against a Database

[tariquesani]

Hello,

First congratulations on creating a superb framework.

Can anyone give some hints on how to authenticate a user against a database in executeLogin()

I would very much prefer not to use Propel::getconnection etc - so that the login can still be kept independent of the DB layer

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Tarique

[fabien]

You can easily create a User model with Propel and then use it in your login action.

Here is a very simple executeLogin action example:

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  public function executeLogin()
  {
    ...

    $c = new Criteria();
    $c->add(UserPeer::LOGIN, $this->getRequestParameter('login'));
    $tmpuser = UserPeer::doSelectOne($c);

    // user exists? and password is ok?
    if ($tmpuser && $tmpuser->getPassword() == $this->getRequestParameter('password'))
    {
      $user = $this->getUser();

      // we save the user object in session
      $user->setAttribute('user', $tmpuser);

      // user is now authenticated
      $user->setAuthenticated(true);

      // set user credentials
      $user->addCredential('somecredentials');
    }

    ...
  }


[tariquesani]

Thanks for the quick reply - the key indeed was to read Propel documentation ~ ~

Cheers