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[Brian Dailey]

I'll reply to the HTTP auth question in a separate thread...

I'm aware of the Bakery, but thus far I've been unable to use it to find 
effectual answers to questions I've had about the project.

I realize you don't "owe" anyone anything, and I apologize that I 
perhaps implied that. I realize you're busy fellows and your life 
doesn't revolve around Cake.

(Additionally, I'm not complaining about IRC... I'm just saying that 
some sort of documentation should be the *first* place I should find 
help - IRC should be *last*. You'd probably agree with that yourself.)

That said, I've been using Cake for about a year now, I think, and it's 
by far the best php framework I've employed. Period. So kudos to you and 
the other two-and-a-half guys. :P My complaint was perhaps mistaken as a 
whine, but it's really just me venting frustration. I'm not blaming you, 
or any other participant in the Cake team.

"Finally, it's true, we are keenly aware that our documentation could 
use a little more work..."

Great, then we agree. :)

In the future, I will attempt to be more aware of areas that I may be 
able to contribute to the project.

- Brian

Nate Abele wrote:
> class PluginAppController extends AppController {
> 
>     var $components = array("Security");
> 
>     function beforeFilter() {
>         $this->Security->requireLogin(array('users' => array(
>             'admin' => 'admin',
>             'guest' => 'guest'
>         )));
>         parent::beforeFilter();
>     }
> }
> 
> <rant>
> You know, I get so sick of people ranting about Open Source projects as 
> if the authors somehow owe them something.  We are three people, three 
> and a half on a good day.  Some of us have social lives, and all of us 
> have bills to pay.  Documentation is often a sore spot for OS projects, 
> and ours certainly isn't perfect, but it is far better than it was, and 
> far, far better than many other projects out there.
> 
> Also, at this point it's pretty unfair to characterize our documentation 
> as so scattershot.  If you bothered to look, you'd notice that the wiki 
> has been shut down, and we've created a new community documentation 
> system as http://bakery.cakephp.org/ which is filling out quite nicely.
> 
> Furthermore, and this one goes out to anyone else not paying attention, 
> SecurityComponent::requireLogin() is part of CakePHP 1.2, which is 
> currently in development status, and thus neither feature-complete nor 
> fully debugged.  That particular method is undocumented due largely to 
> the fact that *it's not done yet*.
> 
> Finally, it's true, we are keenly aware that our documentation could use 
> a little more work, but that's part of why we're an Open Source 
> project.  If you dig into a specific Cake feature, find there's no 
> documentation, and learn to use it anyway, here's a novel idea: HELP 
> US.  John Anderson heads up the documentation team (of one), and can be 
> reached at psychic at cakephp d0t org.
> 
> Oh, and this has to be a first.  I don't think I've ever actually heard 
> anyone complain about the fact that we have an IRC channel offering live 
> support, which one of the core developers of the framework is almost 
> always on.
> </rant>
> 
> Thanks,
> - Nate
> Core Developer, CakePHP
> 
>> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:22:51 -0500
>> From: Brian Dailey <support at dailytechnology.net>
>> Subject: [nycphp-talk] CakePHP and HTTP Auth
>> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>> Message-ID: <459D37EB.9030400 at dailytechnology.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Have any of you cake-users on the list tried to password protect a
>> single cake subdir (in my case, a plugin)? I got this working at one
>> point, but I can't figure out how I did it. I'm currently attempting to
>> pull in the Security->requireLogin() param, but it's just redirecting to
>> somewhere else and not asking for authentication at all.
>>
>> All I'm looking for is a simple password protect - the kind you'd use
>> with a .htaccess file normally.
>>
>> <rant>
>> By the way, this is my biggest complaint with Cake. Documentation.
>> Relying on the "shotgun documentation", leaving little bits and pieces
>> here and there (wiki, google groups, irc) is killing me. The more time I
>> spend trying to figure out how do to something that should be relatively
>> simple, the less beneficial it is for me to use Cake. It's a great
>> system, but man, the documentation is horrendous.
>> </rant>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Brian
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