cakephp-1.3 > AuthComponent :: login()
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login

line:681 at /cake/libs/controller/components/auth.php
Manually log-in a user with the given parameter data. The $data provided can be any data structure used to identify a user in AuthComponent::identify(). If $data is empty or not specified, POST data from Controller::$data will be used automatically.

Method

(boolean) login ($data = null)

Parameters

ParameterTypeCommentDefault
$data mixed optional User object null

Return

boolean

Comment

Manually log-in a user with the given parameter data. The $data provided can be any data
structure used to identify a user in AuthComponent::identify(). If $data is empty or not
specified, POST data from Controller::$data will be used automatically.

After (if) login is successful, the user record is written to the session key specified in
AuthComponent::$sessionKey.

@param mixed $data User object
@return boolean True on login success, false on failure
@access public
@link http://book.cakephp.org/view/1261/login