CakeDC users plugin breaking when extending users controller

Question

I am trying to restrict access to administering users in the CakeDC Users plugin. As far as I can tell that requires extending the UsersController, but I can't seem to get that right: something is broken no matter what I do (I've spent a couple days on this).

I've been following the instructions in the Users plugin readme: https://github.com/CakeDC/users. I copied the render method from the readme to use the plugin's views. I overrode _setupAuth with an empty function but then copied most of the original _setupAuth to my beforeFilter:

AppUsersController.php:

public function beforeFilter() {
        parent::beforeFilter();

        $this->Auth->allow('login');

        $this->Auth->authenticate = array(
            'Form' => array(
                'fields' => array(
                    'username' => 'email',
                    'password' => 'password'),
                'userModel' => 'Users.User',
                'scope' => array(
                    'User.active' => 1,
                    'User.email_verified' => 1)
            )
        );

        $this->Auth->loginRedirect = '/';
        $this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'action' => 'login');
        $this->Auth->loginAction = array('admin' => false, 'plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'action' => 'login');
    }

I entered the routes changing them for my extended controller like the readme says with only a couple changes. First I added admin routes, because the admin side was still using the original plugin's controller. Second, I switched users/users/:action route with users/:action because I kept getting missing method errors (i.e. '/users/users/login' was trying to find users action in a users controller in my app, not in the plugin).

routes.php:

Router::connect('/admin/users', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'prefix' => 'admin', 'admin' => true));
Router::connect('/admin/users/index/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'prefix' => 'admin', 'admin' => true));
Router::connect('/admin/users/:action/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'prefix' => 'admin', 'admin' => true));
Router::connect('/admin/users/users/:action/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'prefix' => 'admin', 'admin' => true));
Router::connect('/users', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users'));
Router::connect('/users/index/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users'));
Router::connect('/users/:action/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users'));
Router::connect('/users/users/:action/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users'));
Router::connect('/login/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'action' => 'login'));
Router::connect('/logout/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'action' => 'logout'));
Router::connect('/register/*', array('plugin' => null, 'controller' => 'app_users', 'action' => 'add'));

Now it sort of works. the admin_edit, and view actions give SQL errors. They seem to depend on some behavior that isn't being loaded for some reason when using my AppUsersController. They call User->edit and User->view respectively on the User Model. No loaded behaviors implement those methods, so the User Model tries to pass it to the DataSource, hence the SQL errors. Also the edit action errors out on User->UserDetails not being set to an instance of an object. Is the User Model not being initialized somehow?

Any help is appreciated.

Meron Meron · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-29T15:37:04

So I figured it out by inserting CakeLog:debug() into suspect functions in the User Plugin code to see what wasn't being run.

I had to initialize the User model in my AppUsers controller that was extending the plugin's Users controller:

At top:

App::uses('User', 'Users.Model');

In beforeFilter:

$this->User = ClassRegistry::init('Users.User');

I knew that I would have to do that for my extended model if I was extending the model, but I am not (yet), so I thought I didn't need to.

CakeDC users plugin breaking when extending users controller

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