CakePHP 4 manually log in user

Question

I'm trying to manually sign in a user.

Previously this was done calling $this->Auth->login()

I can't find how to do it using the Authentication plugin.

I think it's just the `setIdentity` call? Is there something that `login` does for you that this doesn't? — Greg Schmidt, Jul 17 '20 at 14:04
Hi Greg, thank you for your reply. I believe this function uses the request data? I can’t seem to find an API description of the authentication component — Robin.v, Jul 17 '20 at 18:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '20 at 10:03

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 $this->Authentication->setIdentity($this->request->getData());

https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/issues/370

answered Jul 21 '20 at 10:03

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '20 at 04:26

You can manually login users by doing the following Create an Entity of User by getting the user data you want to login. By using setUser, we can finally set the user and finally redirect him to the home page.

public function manualLogin()
{
    $user = $this->Users->newEntity($this->request->getData());
  
    $this->Auth->setUser($user->toArray());
    return $this->redirect(['controller' => 'Home','action' => 'index' ]);
}

CakePHP 4 manually log in user

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