Auth Component, Controller other than Users - php

Question

I don't have a User table. I got a Customer table. It seems like Cakephp Auth doesn't recognise any other table beside User. Is there any way to walk around this error?
If I tried using $this->Auth->User('role') - it works perfectly fine. But all my auth credentials is under the Customer table. please help.
I got this error below
Fatal error: Call to undefined method AuthComponent::Customer() in
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/development03/app/app_controller.php on line 56
The code:
function beforeFilter() {
$this->set('admin', $this->_isAdmin());
}
function _isAdmin() {
$admin = FALSE;
if ($this->Auth->Customer('role') == 'admin') {
$admin = TRUE;
}
return $admin;
}

Answer 1

Let's say that you want administrators table where username is field email and password is field password:
In your AppController.php:
public $components = array('Session',
'Auth' => array('authenticate' => array('Form' => array( 'userModel' => 'Administrator',
'fields' => array(
'username' => 'email',
'password' => 'password'
)
)
),
'authorize' => array('Controller'),
'loginAction' => array('controller' => 'administrators', 'action' => 'login'),
'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'index'),
'logoutRedirect' => array('controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'index'),
),
);
In AppController.php add this too:
public function isAuthorized($user){
return true;
}

Answer 2

You will have to use userModel => ModelName property. Your AppController should looks like:
class AppController extends Controller
{
public $components = array(
'Auth' => array('authenticate' => array('Form' => array('userModel' =>'Customer',
'fields' => array('username' => 'USER_LOGINNAME', 'password' => 'USER_PASSWORD'
)
)
)
)
);
/*...... Your code ............*/
}
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