I’ve been using CakePHP for my last few projects and recently ran into a problem that was driving me nuts.  I have a few pages that don’t require any authentication.  You can allow pages to be viewed by calling $this->Auth->allow(‘function_name’) in your beforeFilter() method.  So, I set up my app_controller class with a before filter that looks something like this.

< ?php

class AppController extends Controller {

    var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Javascript');
    var $components = array('Auth');

    function beforeFilter() {
        $this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;
        $this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
        $this->Auth->allow('display');
    }

}

?>

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