CakePHP 3 EPAuthenticate Plugin

This little plugin provides an Authenticate adapter for stateless Authentication. It allows you to specify a special header, which contains a token to authorize in your application. This can be very helpful for testing, be it unittests or manual tests with API clients (like Postman) or directly in your client software.

Installation

composer require gringlas/cakephp-ep-authenticate dev-master

Usage

Just add gringlas/EPAuthenticate.EP to your AuthComponent authenticate, like

$this->loacComponent('Auth', [
    'authenticate' => [
        'gringlas/EPAuthenticate.EP' => [
            'header' => 'EP-Authorization',
            'userId' => 1,
            'debugOnly' => false,
            'password' => 'EPme',
        ],
    ...
);

Send add set header and password to your next request and get authenticated as User with id userid.

Configuration

• userId: Id of User data, which should be authed, defaults to 1
• debugOnly: only use AuthenticateAdapter when env('debug', true), defaults to true
• header: Name of header, defaults to EP-Authorization
• password: Value of header, defaults to EPme

ToDo

• Add custom UserModel, so far only users from DB table are supported
• Add custom finder method, so far only a $this->User->get($this->getConfig['user']) is used to get User data.