Login should be an action conducted at least two page requests before you edit UserB and as such why are you reading UserA's data when saving UserB's edited data?
Once a user is authenticated their data is readily available in the session, sounds like your doing an extra call and putting that data into $this->data at some point. HTH, Paul. On Sep 27, 12:25 pm, dtemes <[email protected]> wrote: > It's part of the same query, no after/beforeSave running. > > The model in question is the User model. These are my steps > > 1. Read the logged in user (Lets call it UserA) > 2. Select another user from the user table to update (UserB). > 3. Present a form with just a few fields that I need to update > 4. Update UserB using the data in the form. > > If I follow this pattern UserB fields not present in the data array > are filled with data from UserA > > If I call User->create() between steps 3 and 4, then no data from > UserA is passed to UserB, but fields not present in the data array > coming from the form are reset to the database default value..... > > The only solution is to read UserB before step 4. > > On 26 sep, 12:30, WebbedIT <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is the update of the enabled field happening as part of the same SQL > > query or a separate one? Are you sure you have not got a callback > > (beforeSave or afterSave) running which is doing this? > > > HTH, Paul > > > On Sep 25, 7:20 pm, dtemes <[email protected]> wrote:> More information, If > > i don't provide a value for fields that have a > > > default value in the database, the fields are modified and they take > > > the database default value. > > > > For instance I have a reset password action that takes data from a > > > form with just the user id and password. The data array only has id > > > and password. > > > > Submitting the form changes the user password, but the user model has > > > a enabled field, with a default value of 0. In the sql query I can see > > > that cake is doing an update of the password fields but also of the > > > enabled field. > > > > Using cake 1.3.5 > > > > On 25 sep, 15:31, dtemes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I ahev to related models, group and user, and I have a form to update > > > > user data from the groups controller, previously to the User->Save i > > > > read some information from the current user, the code is something > > > > like: > > > > > $this->Group->User->read->($this->Auth->user('id')); > > > > . > > > > . > > > > . > > > > $this->Group->User->Save($this->data); > > > > > As a result if the current user value of fieldX is 123, then the > > > > fieldX of the user being updated takes the value 123, but there is no > > > > such fieldX in the $this->data > > > > > One way to avoid this is by doing a $this->Group->User->read(null, > > > > $this->data['User']['id']); but either there is something wrong in the > > > > cake implementation of the save function or most probably I am missing > > > > something. > > > > > Any ideas? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
