# Authentication plugin: install & use

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**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-plugin-install-use/7636 "2020-04-10T21:52:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-plugin-install-use/7636/31 "2020-04-19T15:39:16Z")

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I’ve always assumed it was my learning style. I do best with a global perspective first. Then I have a scene to fit all the details into. But the cake docs are presented in (what I think of as) a more traditional rule-list form.

Rule-lists are the least effective way for me to learn anything. This is the reason I drew the UMLs. But I haven’t decided how much detail they should have to be a useful and maintainable part of the documentation. Less detail than I have included so for I’m sure.

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