Every time I start CakePHP project, I find that I’ve forgotten how to set up the user auth system of logins, creating accounts, etc. There seems to be only a few examples of it on the internet, so I thought I’d post up my solution. It uses the Auth component and follows normal user creation convention. By “normal user creation convention,” I mean that you require an email address that’s used as the login name, a password field, a confirm-password field, and checks to make sure the passwords match. Read the rest of this entry »