Question

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#accessing-the-logged-in-user

Can someone help me understand this.

The AuthComponent::user() method only returns some basic information about the user, not the actual User object itself.

Coming from rails, I am used to a fully loaded current_user object

If I wanted something similar, should I do a

$this->User->id = AuthComponent::user('id')

and use that? Or is there already a built in method I can use.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I ended up doing something like this

# load current_user
$this->loadModel('User');
$this->User->id = AuthComponent::user('id');
$user = $this->User->read();
$this->set('current_user',$user);