Some interesting findings from web-dev land…
If you use the CakePHP Auth component and you need some conditions for users attempting to login, you can set this attribute/property in the Auth object:
1$this->Auth->userScope = array(’User.status’ => 1);
The userScope attribute behaves pretty much like an Active Record find condition definition.
So in the above example, only users with a status of 1 (active) can [...]