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POHow can I save an automatically generated password in CakePHP?
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copied!<p>I am trying to automatically register users. You enter an email address and it sends the user a password. Sounds simple enough, right? Here are a bunch of things that I've tried in my add action, but none of them work (as indicated).</p> <pre><code>if (!empty($this->data)) { $this->User->create(); $random_pass = $this->Auth->password($this->generatePassword()); // Doesn't work: $user_data['User'] = $this->data['User']; $user_data['User']['password'] = $random_pass; if ($this->User->save($user_data)) { /* ... */ } // Doesn't work: $this->User->set('password', $random_pass); if ($this->User->save($this->data)) { /* ... */ } // Doesn't work: $this->data['User']['password'] = $random_pass; if ($this->User->save($this->data)) { /* ... */ } // Doesn't work: $this->data['User'][0]['password'] = $random_pass; if ($this->User->saveAll($this->data)) { /* ... */ } } </code></pre> <p>According to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/960415/cakephp-password-field-is-empty">Why is the CakePHP password field is empty when trying to access it using $this->data?</a> it's because the Auth component is removing the password. Seems common enough, no? So how do I get around it?</p> <p><strong>More information</strong></p> <p>I'm using <a href="http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/ashevat/2010/03/12/how-to-implament-one-time-password-for-forgot-my-password-and-account-activation-processes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this function</a> to generate the password. The add view only has three fields, first_name, last_name, and email (which is assigned to the username field in the Auth component).</p>

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