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Reputation: 7061

CakePHP Acessing full User Information

I am very new to CakePHP and I was just wondering if someone could help me with a couple of things. I have a User class and an Image class.

In my users_controller.php I have the following functions 

function beforeFilter(){
    $this->userOb = $this->User->find();
}
function beforeRender(){
    $this->set('userOb', $this->userOb);
}

This works fine and I can view the object in my view, with all the correct relations to the Image class.

But doing this overwrites the beforeFilter() and beforeRender() functions in my app_controller.php, so I try and move this functionality to my app_controller.php but I get an error (Undefined property: PagesController::$User)

Also,

$this->Auth->user();

doesn't seem to have the full object map that 

$this->User->find();

returns.

So, I guess my question is how can I create a variable that is acessable in all my views, i.e it's defined in app_controller.php, that contains the current logged in Users Object and it's relations.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 180

Answers (2)

Anh Pham
Anh Pham

Reputation: 5481

put your find result in SessionComponent so you don't have to perform a query for each request (and set variable in beforeRender). In the view you can access it with SessionHelper. $this->Auth->user(); only have the User record.

Upvotes: 1

Stoosh
Stoosh

Reputation: 2429

If the issue is your parent methods are being overwritten by child methods, simply call the parent method in the child, see below:

function beforeFilter(){
    parent::beforeFilter();
    $this->userOb = $this->User->find();
}
function beforeRender(){
    parent::beforeRender();
    $this->set('userOb', $this->userOb);
}

Upvotes: 1

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