Cakephp Auth: bypassing login

Question

I am working on a CakePHP application which is part/sub another application that is developed in different technology ( ColdFusion ). Both apps have their own login functionality and they are required. Login functionality in CakePHP is by AUTH and ACL . Now the requirement is that when a user logged in parent app which is developed in ColdFusion user should directly go to protected pages/dashboard without logging in. I want a way to bypass the login functionality provided by Auth.

Thank you,

kiran

Answer 1

I want a way to bypass the login functionality provided by Auth.

You probably don't, you probably want to be able to log the user in automatically, which Auth supports .

You need to have some way for your PHP code to call ColdFusion to authenticate a user based on some shared secret (eg the login cookie for the ColdFusion part of the application) and then automatically log the user if they are authenticated.