Re: display user ID

2011-02-02 Thread Paul Wheatley
Cheers folks, i added $this->data['Course']['user_id'] = $this->Session->read('Auth.User.id'); to my controller from euromark's responce and it worked perfectly thanks very much everyone. Paul On 2 Feb 2011, at 18:12, Stephen wrote: > Definately go with euromark's answer, Ed is correct in hi

Re: display user ID

2011-02-02 Thread Stephen
Definately go with euromark's answer, Ed is correct in his, but like he says it can be manipulated (just for emphasis) On 2 February 2011 18:07, Ed Propsner wrote: > I'd go with euromark's answer :) He's right about the field being easily > manipulated. > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ed P

Re: display user ID

2011-02-02 Thread Ed Propsner
I'd go with euromark's answer :) He's right about the field being easily manipulated. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ed Propsner wrote: > A hidden field could accomplish exactly what you are looking to do. > > $form->input('User.user_id', array('type' => 'hidden', 'value' => > $this->Session->r

Re: display user ID

2011-02-02 Thread Ed Propsner
A hidden field could accomplish exactly what you are looking to do. $form->input('User.user_id', array('type' => 'hidden', 'value' => $this->Session->read('Auth.User.id')); The user id will accessible in your controller through $this->data HTH On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Paul Wheatley wrot

Re: display user ID

2011-02-02 Thread euromark
dont use a hidden field it can easily manipulated :) if (!empty($this->data)) { $this->Product->create(); $this->data['Product']['user_id'] = $this->Session- >read('Auth.User.id'); if ($this->Product->save($this->data)) { ... } ... } On 2

display user ID

2011-02-02 Thread Paul Wheatley
Hello, I have a add view that you have to be logged in to get to. What i am trying to do is add the UserID of the person creating the record to the table so that later i can display only posts that relate to him/her. I have a field called user_id and sort of hoped that Cake would do a similar