i seem to be getting this error:

it’s referring to this:

any suggestions? I’m using CI 1.5.4

Many thanks

Hi ceej. I am going to guess that your controller is named BackEnd.

Since you downloaded the demo application, you will need to load the validation, database and session libaries, as well as the cookie, url, and form helpers. The error you received may be referring to the validation library that has not been loaded yet.

If you have the validation library loaded, you may be having a problem with the redirect function, which will require you to load the url helper.

Let me know if loading the helpers and libraries works!

Hi!

So I’m using your model for my project and I’ve been trying to program a pre-controller hook to autolog using the “remember me” cookie.

I must be very bad at OOP, since I can’t seem to make my hook class even begin to work.

I thought I’d go something like:

But this gives an error:

Line 10 is where I’m trying to load the cookie helper.

I’m sure there’s something very simple I’m doing wrong but what is it?

Any help much appreciated!
Thanks
Laurent

I haven’t done much work with hooks, but it looks like you are calling the get_cookie function before the helper is actually loaded.

Because of my inexperience with hooks, I don’t have a solution to correct the hook, but logging the user in when you load your controller would solve your problem.

Thank you danoph, that seemed to do the job!

danoph - 24 October 2007 05:14 PM

I haven’t done much work with hooks, but it looks like you are calling the get_cookie function before the helper is actually loaded.

Because of my inexperience with hooks, I don’t have a solution to correct the hook, but logging the user in when you load your controller would solve your problem.

Yes, that would surely do, but wouldn’t it be a LOT cleaner to use a hook? I kinda hate to burden all my controllers with the same piece of code (though I’ll probably end up doing so).

It would be a lot cleaner if you used a hook, but it seems like the libraries and helpers aren’t loaded at the point where you make that call.

I hate redundant code! In fact, the last release of EzAuth (0.5) allowed you to declare a lot less when you are using multiple controllers. I like reducing code!

An auto-login looks like a good feature that will be added to the next release

Well I’ve just worked out an autologin code.

I’ll post the code here later, but here’s how I made it.

1. I tweaked your remember me cookie, cause I don’t think autologin from the username is something safe, I think it’s best done from some random unique ID.
For that, I added a field to the ez_users table named “code” and that’s what I’m storing in the cookie instead of the username. This code would have to be generated upon registration (something like uniqid() would probably do).

2. I used a post_controller_constructor hook (not a pre_controller hook which only sounded like the best choice). That lets you load helpers and libraries and that’s early enough in the flow for what we want to do.

3. I added an extra function autologin() to the model. This works the same as login() except it logs the user from its “code” instead of his username+pwd.

4. I also changed the logout function to have it erase the cookie.

I’ll post my code as soon as I get a chance to clean it.

Sounds good!

Post the code here or send it via e-mail to daniel{at}bizwidgets.biz

Your code should be useful when I incorporate an auto-login to the next release!

danoph - 25 October 2007 05:08 PM

Sounds good!

Post the code here or send it via e-mail to daniel{at}bizwidgets.biz

Your code should be useful when I incorporate an auto-login to the next release!

I’ll post it some time tomorrow. For now, I’m off to bed