Sean Callan over the Bakery blog has posted a guide, giving the CakePHP framework users ideas to set up a basic user authentication system for their application. This tutorial covers aspects of MVC in an authentication role, logging a user in, maintaining a session, and restricting unauthorized access to controller actions, he informs.

The tutorial is divided into three sections:

• Database: in this section, Sean creates a table in the database and configures the app/database.php file. He provides a basic schema to get you started.
• Model: in this section, he creates an User model. As the model is used only to check user information it is pretty basic, he says. But all logic and calculations in an MVC environment should take place inside the model, so the function validateLogin($data) is used with the example code, he explains.
• View: the third section deals with view . He says the views are straightforward and should be customized to fit the site needs. He provides self-explanatory code for this section.