Recents Comments for post: Auth module for Kohana 3.1 using ORM Driver

New comment by Mondongo

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:56:36 CST

Thanks for doing this!

Just got your book in Kindle edition, it's what I was looking for!

New comment by Arthur

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:08:56 CDT

Thank you very much, for this article! Best Auth guide for kohana.

New comment by Zetell

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:38:49 CDT

Thank you very much for this guide! It helped me upgade my Kohana-based project from 3.0.x branch to 3.1.

New comment by Sune

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:17:52 CDT

Hello Straughan and other readers.

Nice blog you have here.

I am new to Kohana and followed your tutorial to create the login functionality.

However I can not figure out how to change the password requirements other than changing /modules/orm/classes/model/auth/user.php

Do I really have to change this file? I find that the Kohana style is overriding the default behavior with custom behavior, so I would find it odd having to change the ORM module files directly.

Thanks.

New comment by skyman

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:59:24 CDT

Great article man!

P.s. You should mention about Cookie::$salt beacuse it's important too :)

New comment by Alex

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:39:34 CDT

Great example! Thanks alot!

New comment by youngpac

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:09:50 CDT

thanks JDStraughan i saw ma mistake and rectified it.. your tutorial has gone a long way in helping me understand!

New comment by Ryan

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:12:57 CDT

Finally someone explains this stuff in a clear and concise manner. I was pulling hair I don't even have out! Works like a charm now. I look forward to the book, how about you send me an email when it comes out? ;)

New comment by Yann

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:19:43 CDT

Yep, it's works great.

I actually made a lots of changes into that but override some function like the _login() one.
And i was able to add an activation email instead of adding the login role directly.

Just one info if someone need, if you want to load your module extending the Auth module, you have to load it in the bootstrap.php BEFORE the Auth module ! (take me a few hours to understand my mistake was there lol)

Thanks for all JDStraughan, can't wait to see your book !

New comment by JDStraughan

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:17:12 CDT

@youngpac, @Yann: You can add to the user table and model, extend the model, or add to the controller. I am not really sure what you need.

@Yann: I made the change, thanks for pointing that out!

@Peter: Glad to see you making good use of the tutorial!

New comment by Peter Weil

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:15:33 CDT

Thanks also for the examples using the Arr helper methods. I never realized how useful these are.

If you want to display all of the errors together; e.g., above the form, you can run a check on $errors['_external']['password'] and add it to the $errors array.

if ( ! empty($errors['_external']['password']))
{
$errors[] = $errors['_external']['password'];
}

And then just loop through $errors to display them, e.g.,

if( ! empty($errors)) : ?>

New comment by youngpac

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:17:39 CDT

hi, am trying to move the code from the use class to my index controller so that the auth can check on login on to the website but whnever i hit the submit button it takes me to user/login while i have remove the class for user any help?

thanks in advance.

New comment by Yann

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:41:59 CDT

Hi again,

I saw something wrong in a sentence you made "To provide a custom message for that also, you will need to create a new directory named user inside messages/user, and add a file named _external.php"

Your _external.php file must be in messages/models/user/ because you choose to use "models" and not in messages/user/ like you wrote. I think you made a typo.

Hope this help some others ^^

Yann

New comment by Yann

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:56:00 CDT

Hi !

Thanks for this post, help me a lot.

I'm trying to extends a lot user class of Auth and creating some new ones for adding capabilities like Wordpress ones. But like Cesar, I'm a little lost so can you help me understand how to extends or create new class who can interact with the Auth class ?!

Thank you very much in advance,

Yann

New comment by JDStraughan

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:11:08 CDT

@Brian, Lee: Sorry for the late reply. I have fixed the password error message, and now show how to properly override and retrieve the error message for this field.

You may want to look at the Arr::path() method as well as Arr::get(), and do note I have included both in the above examples.

@Cesar: I hope you got my email and I hope it answered your questions. I may do a post on ORM relationships in the near future.

@All: Thanks for the kind words, and please continue to ask questions and point out my bugs ;)

New comment by youngpac

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:48:32 CDT

thanks a bunch for this
its one of the best tutorials i have seen yet...

New comment by Peter Weil

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:23:53 CDT

Please ignore my last message. The problem was that I had to set a custom read/write-privileged MySQL config to *all* of the models being used by auth, and not just the User model. Sorry to bug you, and thanks again for this tutorial. Kohana is a wonderful framework, but sometimes the lack of good, up-to-date "how-tos" drives me up a wall.

New comment by Peter Weil

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:39:46 CDT

Thank you *so much* for this, Jason - this sort of thing is so badly needed. Perhaps I messed something up, but after I successfully created a new user, I cannot log in (and there is no error message). It just keeps returning me to the login page. However, the log says "ERROR: Error reading session data: " Do you have any ideas as to what's wrong?

(looking forward to your Kohana book!)

New comment by Fredrik

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:31:51 CDT

Fantastic! I'm definitely buying your book once its published :c)

New comment by Brian Wisti

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:29:17 CDT

Well you're my new favorite Kohana blogger ^_^ This is the first auth tutorial I've come across that actually lets me create user and log in and out as the user with 3.1. Thanks very much!

I did come across the same issues that Lee mentioned, though. Both `password` and `password_confirm` were stored in `_external`. `_external` error messages had to be accessed via `Arr::get($errors['_external'], $field)`. Also, the message overrides in `application/messages/user/_external.php` didn't appear to take. It used the default messages for those.

Mind you, I am _not_ complaining. After struggling a day or so with other resources, yours got me a new user within 30 minutes. Thanks again!

New comment by Cesar Gonzalez

Mon, 30 May 2011 01:38:40 CDT

Hey Jason, thank you for sharing this and for the thoroughly written tutorial! I was able to get it working without any problems.

Now I need to extend the user to include some personal information (first / last name, short bio) and some account information ( # of credits). I'm at a loss for how / where I would do this. Do I create another database table and model? Do I extend the existing model and add a few fields to the users table? In each case, where exactly are the relevant files I should work on?

I know my way around PHP / MySQL but I'm new to Kohana and ORM. I'm hoping that you can point me in the right direction and give me some idea of where to start tackling this? Thanks again!

New comment by JDStraughan

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:25:31 CDT

@Alonso: I cannot reproduce this locally, are you sure you have the framework setup correctly? You are welcome to contact me directly using the contact form, and I will be happy to help in any way I can.

Thanks!

New comment by Alonso

Thu, 12 May 2011 10:21:12 CDT

Hi, it's been quite difficult migrate to 3.1

I tried this example but i can't login and want to create a new user have this message:

---
ORM_Validation_Exception [ 0 ]: Failed to validate array
--
MODPATH/orm/classes/kohana/orm.php [ 1233 ]

thanks for sharing this, greetings!

New comment by Adam

Mon, 09 May 2011 15:46:51 CDT

Great Article! and thanks for the Rick Roll on line 7 of auth.php Got a good laugh out of that.

New comment by Lee

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:18:34 CDT

Not sure if previous comment made it through.

In the registration action, if you enter too-short of a password, there is no error displayed... I can access it in '_external', like this:

Arr::get($errors['_external'], 'password');

But I'm unclear if that's an acceptable Kohana way of doing it.

New comment by Lee

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:10:41 CDT

Thanks for the guide... One issue: At least some of the error comments don't show up on the template.

For example, if the user enters too short of a password... I can access that using the following:

But I'm unsure of Kohana's message routing and don't know if that's the correct way to handle it.

New comment by JDStraughan

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:58:18 CDT

@david: Thanks! I have made the correction.

New comment by david

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:41:38 CDT

You made a little mistake. array_key_exists already returns a boolean so there is no need for a ternary operator.

Otherwise a great article!