Installation

Install the plugin with Composer from your CakePHP project's ROOT directory (where the composer.json file is located):

composer require dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth-backend cakephp/migrations:"^4.5 || ^5.0"

This auto-requires the dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth dependency.

Load the plugin

If Migrations is already loaded by your application, add only TinyAuthBackend. Otherwise load both plugins in your application's Application::bootstrap():

public function bootstrap(): void
{
    parent::bootstrap();

    $this->addPlugin('Migrations');
    $this->addPlugin('TinyAuthBackend');
}

Run the migrations

The plugin ships its database tables as migrations. Run them with the cakephp/migrations plugin:

bin/cake migrations migrate -p TinyAuthBackend

This creates the backend tables:

• tinyauth_roles
• tinyauth_controllers
• tinyauth_actions
• tinyauth_acl_permissions
• tinyauth_resources
• tinyauth_resource_abilities
• tinyauth_scopes
• tinyauth_resource_acl

Continue

Composer declares the supported PHP and CakePHP ranges. The supplied migrations use Migrations\BaseMigration, available from Migrations 4.5. Composer selects a compatible version for your CakePHP installation.

Continue with Getting started to configure local admin access, create a role and synchronize controllers. Existing installations should review the database changes before migrating: the initial migration drops the old tiny_auth_acl_rules and tiny_auth_allow_rules tables. Export those tables before migrating and manually transfer any rules you still need into the normalized schema; the INI importer does not import those legacy database tables.