\Cake\AuthControllerAuthorize

An authorization adapter for AuthComponent. Provides the ability to authorize using a controller callback. Your controller's isAuthorized() method should return a boolean to indicate whether or not the user is authorized.

 public function isAuthorized($user)
 {
     if ($this->request->getParam('admin')) {
         return $user['role'] === 'admin';
     }
     return !empty($user);
 }

The above is simple implementation that would only authorize users of the 'admin' role to access admin routing.

Summary

Methods
Properties
Constants
__construct()
authorize()
setConfig()
getConfig()
config()
configShallow()
controller()
No public properties found
No constants found
_configRead()
_configWrite()
_configDelete()
$_registry
$_defaultConfig
$_config
$_configInitialized
$_Controller
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No private methods found
No private properties found
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Properties

$_defaultConfig

$_defaultConfig : array

Default config for authorize objects.

Type

array

$_config

$_config : array

Runtime config

Type

array

$_configInitialized

$_configInitialized : boolean

Whether the config property has already been configured with defaults

Type

boolean

Methods

__construct()

__construct(\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry  $registry, array  $config = array()) 

Constructor

Parameters

\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry $registry

The controller for this request.

array $config

An array of config. This class does not use any config.

authorize()

authorize(array|\ArrayAccess  $user, \Cake\Http\ServerRequest  $request) : boolean

Checks user authorization using a controller callback.

Parameters

array|\ArrayAccess $user

Active user data

\Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request

Request instance.

Returns

boolean

setConfig()

setConfig(string|array  $key, mixed|null  $value = null, boolean  $merge = true) : $this

Sets the config.

Usage

Setting a specific value:

$this->setConfig('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->setConfig('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->setConfig(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array $key

The key to set, or a complete array of configs.

mixed|null $value

The value to set.

boolean $merge

Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

When trying to set a key that is invalid.

Returns

$this

getConfig()

getConfig(string|null  $key = null, mixed  $default = null) : mixed

Returns the config.

Usage

Reading the whole config:

$this->getConfig();

Reading a specific value:

$this->getConfig('key');

Reading a nested value:

$this->getConfig('some.nested.key');

Reading with default value:

$this->getConfig('some-key', 'default-value');

Parameters

string|null $key

The key to get or null for the whole config.

mixed $default

The return value when the key does not exist.

Returns

mixed —

Config value being read.

config()

config(string|array|null  $key = null, mixed|null  $value = null, boolean  $merge = true) : mixed

Gets/Sets the config.

Usage

Reading the whole config:

$this->config();

Reading a specific value:

$this->config('key');

Reading a nested value:

$this->config('some.nested.key');

Setting a specific value:

$this->config('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array|null $key

The key to get/set, or a complete array of configs.

mixed|null $value

The value to set.

boolean $merge

Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

When trying to set a key that is invalid.

Returns

mixed —

Config value being read, or the object itself on write operations.

configShallow()

configShallow(string|array  $key, mixed|null  $value = null) : $this

Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike `config()` which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.

Setting a specific value:

$this->configShallow('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->configShallow('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->configShallow(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array $key

The key to set, or a complete array of configs.

mixed|null $value

The value to set.

Returns

$this

controller()

controller(\Cake\Controller\Controller|null  $controller = null) : \Cake\Controller\Controller

Get/set the controller this authorize object will be working with. Also checks that isAuthorized is implemented.

Parameters

\Cake\Controller\Controller|null $controller

null to get, a controller to set.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

If controller does not have method isAuthorized().

Returns

\Cake\Controller\Controller

_configRead()

_configRead(string|null  $key) : mixed

Reads a config key.

Parameters

string|null $key

Key to read.

Returns

mixed

_configWrite()

_configWrite(string|array  $key, mixed  $value, boolean|string  $merge = false) : void

Writes a config key.

Parameters

string|array $key

Key to write to.

mixed $value

Value to write.

boolean|string $merge

True to merge recursively, 'shallow' for simple merge, false to overwrite, defaults to false.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

if attempting to clobber existing config

_configDelete()

_configDelete(string  $key) : void

Deletes a single config key.

Parameters

string $key

Key to delete.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

if attempting to clobber existing config