Is there any tools to check what is happening in Kohana at Auth? - frameworks

Question

So, there is problem - I have the order to write web-app on Kohana (no choice) and until yesterday I had no experience with this framework (only in Rails). But anyway I googled and created the authentification on site via net steps:
1: using standart SQL-code in Kohana I created tables for Auth.
2: tutn on ORM and Auth
3: create action login()
public function action_login()
{
$auth = Auth::instance();
if ($auth->logged_in())
{
return $this->request->redirect("welcome/view");
};
if ($_POST)
{
$user = ORM::factory("user");
$status = $auth->login($_POST["username"],$_POST["password"]);
if ($status)
{
$this->request->redirect("welcome/view");
}
else
{
echo "Failed to login";
}
};
$this->response->body(View::factory("login"));
}
But whatever I do I get echo "Failed to login";.
Is there any tools to define what's wrong happening ? Some logs ?
Or, may be, I do something wrong at common....

Answer 1

To answer your question: no there are no obvious tools to dig into Auth. You're best off going into modules/auth and look into the files and dump out information to Kohana::log or Kohana::debug to debug the errors.
I think the problem with your code is that in Kohana 3.2, $_POST is unset. You should use this instead:
$status = $auth->login($this->request->post("username"), $this->request->post("password"));
Should work after that.