Poor readme, cant login to page

[ajibarra]

Reported by andrzejborkowski (at gmail) | January 7th, 2011 @ 07:16 AM
add login to allow action @ users_controller

u must add some information:
u have in view email,password
in code is default cakephp ussername, password, users plugin settings must be sometging like that:

function beforeFilter(){
    $this->Auth->fields = array(
        'username' => 'email', 
        'password' => 'passwd'
        );
}

information about Email component in my case return true but sendmail do not sent mails so i propose to everybody use smtp delivery method

$this->Email->smtpOptions = array(
                'port'=>'465',
                'timeout'=>'30',
                'host'=>'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
                'username'=>'xxx@gmail.com',
                'password'=>'xxx'
                );
            $this->Email->delivery = 'smtp';

add echo $this->Session->flash('auth'); to login view
after that and created && activated account i still cant login to my page ...
how can i debug it and resolve thath problem

[ajibarra]

ryandesign March 29th, 2011 @ 04:23 AM

I agree, the readme is very poor. It does not explain how to use this plugin. The readme says the plugin is easy to setup, which only serves to heighten a user's frustration because in the absence of proper documentation it is very hard to know how to set it up. I applaud that you're making general-purpose plugins for us to use, but if you don't tell us how they work, it's effectively as if the plugins don't exist. I had to ask on the cakephp google group, and in reply I was given a dozen lines to add to my app_controller, which I am rather unlikely to have guessed otherwise; this instruction should be added to the readme. The readme contains several typos. The readme has a "how to use" section, but that section just lists things one can do with the plugin; nothing in that section says how to do it. The "installation" section of the readme does not mention that the utils plugin is also required. I see now that the "requirements" section further down does say this, but I had not read that part yet. Instead of listing the requirements in two places, you may want to list them in just one place in the readme. The readme explains how to extend the users model and controller, but doesn't give any examples of why I might want to do so. It's not mentioned that the id field of the users table created by this plugin uses a UUID instead of an integer; this has implications for any other tables I may already have defined that have user_id fields. It's not explained that you need the Auth component. I suppose one can eventually guess this, but please improve the documentation to the point that we don't need to guess what you intended.

[burzum]

The readme for 2.0 was improved a lot. If there is still anything you want to see in there let us know.