programmatical login in prestashop

[Peter Berghuis]

hello prestashop community!

im a beginer on prestashop but have worked with other cms's like wordpress and joomla but i have some difficulties with your login.

I have the login and password, but when i post these to the authenticator controller in ajax, nothing happens, it doesn't log me in even though i pass the 3 required parameters of 'email', 'password', 'submitLogin' and 'back'.

I have no other choise then to do this login using ajax post method because it should be done seemingly without the need of a user retyping his login and password.

here is some code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<meta name="_csrf" content="${_csrf.token}"/>
<meta name="_csrf_header" content="${_csrf.headerName}"/>

<script>
 $( document ).ready(function() {
  $.post('index.php?controller=authentication', { back: 'my-account', email: '[email protected]', password : 'test1234', SubmitLogin: 1}, 
    function(returnedData){
      console.log(returnedData);
    })
    .fail(function(){
      console.log("error");
    });
 });
</script>

However the response of the ajax corresponds to the login page without any particular error message.

Would anyone have any idea why it doesn't log us in?