Question

I am having issues accessing session information upon login. I am using Nice Auth a plugin for CakePHP.

I have followed some instructions here

What I am trying to do is access the users username so that on another page they do not need to fill out who they are when they send a support ticket.

This is the Userscontroller login function:

public function login(){
        if ($this->request->is('post') || ($this->request->is('get') && isset($this->request->query['openid_mode']))) {
            if ($this->Auth->login()) {
                $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());
                }
            else {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid username or password, try again'));
                }
            }
        }

Which is where I would assume I put the

$this->Session->write('User.id', $userId);

Below is the tickets controller:

public function send()
    {
        $userId = $this->Auth->user();
        if ( !empty($this->request->data) )
        {
            $email = new CakeEmail();
            $email->from(array('[e-mail]'))
                //->to($this->request->data['to'])
                ->to(array('[e-mail]'))
                ->subject($this->request->data['subject']);

            if ($email->send($this->request->data['message']))
            {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Email Sent Successfully'),
                    'default', array('class' => 'success'));
            }
        }

    }

Where I would expect to put this code:

$userId = $this->Session->read('User.id');

And then to display in my View:

$userId = $session->read('User.id');

Now, I have added the Session Component and Helpers to the files as I thought that would be what was causing me issues, but No dice!

Any help is greatly appreciated.

My Current error messages look like this:

Notice (8): Undefined variable: session [APP/View/Tickets/send.ctp, line 10] Fatal error: Call to a member function read() on a non-object in /Users/bellis/workspace/cake/app/View/Tickets/send.ctp on line 10

Answer 1

Turns out, the recommended method is to do it like this:

$userId = $this->Auth->user('id');

You can access the logged in user via that method from any controller.