Wicked cool :D cricket wrote: > 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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