Well first off I would never expose a user_id in a form. (anywhere) My users
do not ever know their id never exposed on the site anywhere. No need for
them to know really.
If they are logged in then you have it in the Session data so you can simply
drop that in behind the scene in the controller
$this->data['ModelName']['user_id'] = $this->Auth-User->('id'); //add this
before you save data
Since you have the user_id you can then find() whatever info you might need
to add to the record, state_id, country_id so on.
$this->Model->save($this->data);
K
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of barricades
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:27 PM
To: CakePHP
Subject: how to automatically have the logged in users id in a form
Hi there, I've searched through a bunch of tutorials but no-one seems
to explain this particular situation. I have a model for users and a
model for what I call campaigns, which a logged in user is allowed to
create. So I've got Auth up and running and the relationship set up so
a campaign belongs to a user.
So the user logs in and is directed to the create campaign action. In
the form that the user fills in, I want the users_id to be the id of
the currently logged in user by default.
echo $this->Form->input('user_id');
I know this is probably dead simple, but all the tutorials I've been
through don't tell me. The blog tutorial(s) there is only one possible
user; in the TOR tutorial its a drop down list to select which dealer
etc... etc...
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