Question

I want to be able to display a user’s username with cakephp in my default.ctp view. Using the authComponent I know I can look up the userid, but how can I use this to look up the username from the users table? I’m used to doing this from a controller, I’m not sure how to do it within a view.

users table
userid |  username   

Answer 1

If you already know how to do it within a controller – then you’re done 99% of the battle. You just need to pass your user that you retrieved in the controller to the view.

In your controller:

$user = $this->User->read(null, $this->Auth->user('id'));
$this->set('user', $user);

In your view:

<?php echo $user['User']['username']; ?>

This is very basic Cake stuff, you should spend a little more time on the manual 🙂