Ok, lets assume that we have a working copy of FuelPHP with simpleauth This code is available at: https://github.com/jsidhu/FuelPHP-Auth-AJAX We are going to use a REST controller along with some javascript (jQuery) to end up with a working AJAX based login page. Download jQuery and put it in public/assets/js/jquery-1.6.1.min.js Edit your template file and edit to include jquery: fuel/app/views/t