CakePHP with JWT authentication

Project developed using CakePHP framework in version 3.8. * in conjunction with JWT plugin.

The project aims to show how the JWT plugin is implemented so that it can be used in API's.

The project consists of:

• User Registration and Editing.

• Token Generation User Authentication.

• Token usage to access the rest of the content.

Used Plugins

• CakePHP JWT Auth

composer require admad/cakephp-jwt-auth

• Crud

composer require friendsofcake/crud

• Firebase JWT

composer require firebase/php-jwt

For testing the project

1. Clone the project with command line git clone https://github.com/jeffersonbehling/cakephp-jwt.git.

2. Run composer install.

3. Create your database and configure config/app.php file.

4. Execute the migrations with command line bin/cake migrations migrate.

5. Start the server with bin/cake server -p 8765 and access the browser http://localhost:8765.

6. Create a user by accessing http://localhost:8765/api/users/register (with cUrl).

cUrl

Below is an example cUrl API request.

curl -X POST -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -i http://localhost:8765/api/users/register --data 'name=Jefferson Vantuir&email=jeffersonbehling@gmail.com&password=test123'

If all goes well, you will get a return similar to this one below.

{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "id": "76210f94-3b78-433f-a06c-2358df5f9f11",
        "message": "User has been registered.",
        "token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiI3NjIxMGY5NC0zYjc4LTQzM2YtYTA2Yy0yMzU4ZGY1ZjlmMTEiLCJleHAiOjE1NjU3OTE2MTR9.V930GtcvLvQu548UaHr8nY311aIHqaaugnJrQKbfkD4"
    }
}

Pages

Below are all pages that you can access on this project.

Pages allowed without Token authentication

• /api/users/register (POST)
• /api/users/login (POST)
• /api/articles (GET)

Pages allowed only with Token authentication

• /api/users/edit (POST, PUT)
• /api/articles (POST, PUT)