Authentication not working in yii2

Question

1. I have Employee table whose structure is as follows:

EmpId
FirstName
LastName
Username
Password

2. Now in application component I have included my custom class as follows:

   'user' => [ 'identityClass' => 'app\models\Employee', 'enableSession' => true, ],

3. I have implemented foll methods in Employee model as follows:

   public static function findIdentityByAccessToken($token, $type = null) { throw new NotSupportedException(); }

   public function getId() { return $this->EmpId; }

   public function getAuthKey() { throw new NotSupportedException(); }

   public function validateAuthKey($authKey) { throw new NotSupportedException(); }

   public static function findByUsername($username) { return self::findOne(['Username'=>$username]); }

   public function validatePassword($password) { return $this->Password === $password; }

4. And in LoginForm model, I have following. Insted of User, I have included custom class Employee.

   public function getUser() { if ($this->_user === false) { $this->_user = Employee::findByUsername($this->username); }

   return $this->_user;
   

   }

Now when I try to login and provide username and password, it gives the foll error:

Unknown Property – yii\base\UnknownPropertyException

Getting unknown property: app\models\Employee::username

Answer 1

Notice the Case in the column names in your - this should be the same as attributes in your model. ie: replace - $this->usename to $this->Username;