Question

I ve been developing a facebook application on Yii and after the authentication i want to set the username and id according to the facebook username and id. As i am new to Yii I dont’t have much idea about how to do it. Though when i tried to set the user id in my UserIdentity class, it gave an error saying that

Property "UserIdentity.id" is read only.

is there any other way to do it?

Answer 1

What are you using for authentication now? If you set up a webapp you should have a UserIdentity class in components that extends CUserIdentity. This is usually where you would use setState(), like $this->setState('first_name', $record->first_name); to set the user’s first name from a db record after authentication, as an example, which you can retrieve via Yii::app()->user->first_name

However, I think what you may be looking for is Yii::app()->user->name = 'newname'; which changes the CWebUser property that CUserIdentity sets during authentication with the CUserIdentity::username value.

Either option is fine — setting a custom Yii::app()->user->value or resetting the Yii::app()->user->name value, whichever works best for your app. (I wouldn’t reset the user->id value tho.)