I used some logic in beforeValidate() to determine if the data gonna saved should be an update or an insert, if update then set $model->id. It worked perfectly for 1.2, but not in 1.3. So I guess the 1.3 CakePHP team assumes you have to know whether it’s an update or insert before you call validate/save.

I am thinking start a mongo database server on demand of a php script

thanks for the answer

What you could do in that case is check the group name inside the login() method.

Here’s an example that might work:
Change this code in the login() method

$this->Redirect(array('controller' => 'Controller_name', 'action' => 'Action_name'));
exit();

to something like

// Use the user variable returned from the validate login function
if ($user['Group']['name'] == 'admin') {
$this->Redirect(array('controller' => 'ControllerName', 'action' => 'AdminActionName'));
} else {
$this->Redirect(array('controller' => 'SomeOtherControllerMaybe', 'action' => 'UserAction'));
}

Finally change the ‘find’ in validateLogin function in the model to

$user = $this->find(array('username' => $data['username'], 'password' => $data['password']), array('id', 'username', 'Group.name'));

You would also want to make sure that a normal user can’t access an admin page by typing it in the url.

It looks like you got that notification since you are actually hosting your Mongo database on dreamhost’s shared hosting. They don’t allow that

What they DO allow, however, is to host your Mongo database externally (check out MongoHQ.com), and connect to it via PHP. It’s not ideal, but even the free MongoHQ database works for small projects.

Hope that helps.

but they send me a notification

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you have received this message?

thanks