CakePHP not able to login with email

Question

I want to add some basic authentication to my app. So I mostly followed the cookbook tutorial but I want to sign in with my email instead of a username. So I wrote following lines:

AppController.php

public $components = array(
  'Auth' => array(
    'authentication' => array(
      AuthComponent::ALL => array(
        'fields' => array('username' => 'email')
      )
    )
  )
);

UsersController.php

public function login() {
  if ($this->request->is('post')) {
    if ($this->Auth->login()) {
      $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirectUrl());
    }
    $this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid email/password combination'));
  }
}

login.ctp

<?php
echo $this->Form->create('User');
echo $this->Form->input('email');
echo $this->Form->input('password');
echo $this->Form->end(__('Login'));
?>

User.php

public function beforeSave($options = array()) {
  $this->data['User']['password'] = AuthComponent::password($this->data['User']['password']);
  return true;
}

I created a user before but I am not able to login. What am I doing wrong? I am getting crazy...

Answer 1

According to the CakePHP book the array should look like this:

public $components = array(
    'Auth' => array(
        'authenticate' => array(
            'Form' => array(
                'fields' => array('username' => 'email')
            )
        )
    )
);

Answer 2

DAMN IT

Instead of 'authenticate' => ..., I wrote 'authentication' => ....