On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Yaron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Suppose I a users table, a groups table, and every user belongs to a
> group. I'd like via the app_controller to get the group's name, in
> order to set it in the view.
> I've used the following code in app_controller.php:
> function beforeRender(){
> $this->loadModel('Group');
> $group = $this->Group->find('id = ' . $this->Auth->user('group_id'));
> $this->set('groupName', $group['Group']['name']);
> }
>
> This code works great, but is there another way than using the
> loadModel method? thanks.
You can grab the name from within login() and store it in the session.
Assuming you have $this->Auth->autoRedirect = false in
AppController::beforeFilter() ...
public function login()
{
if ($user = $this->Auth->user())
{
$this->User->Group->id = $this->Auth->user('group_id');
$this->Session->write(
'Auth.User.group_name',
$this->User->Group->field('name')
);
$this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());
}
}
Then you can get the name from within a controller:
$this->Auth->user('group_name');
... or view:
$this->Session->read('Auth.User.group_name');
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