# Access token authentication in cakephp

**URL:** <https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/access-token-authentication-in-cakephp/1361>\
**Category:** Need Help\
**Created:** [October 21, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/access-token-authentication-in-cakephp/1361 "2016-10-21T09:38:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ashi123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Ashi123](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/Ashi123)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/access-token-authentication-in-cakephp/1361/1 "2016-10-21T09:38:13Z")

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Hi friends , Being a developer I am learning html, CSS, cakephp & web Development. I am here to enhance my learning on web development through various forums like php developer forum and other web developer communities & want to access token authentication in cakephp. I hope any tech developer can help me over here in resolving the issue.

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**Author:** ![jerome.oneil](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/jerome.oneil/32/376_2.png) [@jerome.oneil](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/jerome.oneil)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/access-token-authentication-in-cakephp/1361/2 "2016-10-21T16:15:54Z")

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Friends of Cake have a pretty good plugin for generating JWT.

> **[ADmad/cakephp-jwt-auth](https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-jwt-auth)**
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> A CakePHP plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens - ADmad/cakephp-jwt-auth

Make sure you follow the blog entry that it links to at the bottom of the page. It is very informative.