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It’s a common problem to CakePHP developer to auth allow to specific actions of a specific controller. Especially to newbies developer of CakePHP. Honestly, it’s really easy but little tricky. So this article is for whom, who looking for CakePHP auth allow to specific actions of specific controllers.

Assume you have three controllers ClientsController.php, JobsController.php and HomeController.php. Now you want to access:

• index() action from all controller
• lists() action of  ClientsController.php controller
• jobs() action of JobsController.php controller
• home() action of HomeController.php controller

To accomplish this goal open AuthController.php file and add these following line.

public function beforeFilter(Event $event)
{
   $this->Auth->allow(array('index'));
}

Then open ClientsController.php file and add these following line.

public function beforeFilter(Event $event)
{
   parent::beforeFilter($event);
   $this->Auth->allow(array('lists'));
}

Then open JobsController.php file and add these following line.

public function beforeFilter(Event $event)
{
   parent::beforeFilter($event);
   $this->Auth->allow(array('jobs'));
}

Then open HomeController.php file and add these following line.

public function beforeFilter(Event $event)
{
   parent::beforeFilter($event);
   $this->Auth->allow(array('home'));
}

In this way, you can auth allow to specific actions of specific controllers.