Question

I’m trying to access data in my Model for my controller method.

For starters what is the difference between these two???

$post = $this->Post->find('first',array('conditions'=>array('Post.id'=>$id)));

$this->set(compact('post'));

and

$this->Post->id = $id;

$this->data = $this->Post->read();

as I’m trying to compare the user_id for a post against the logged in user like so:

if($this->Post->user_id != $this->Auth->user('id'))

but it doesn’t work as intended (it always returns false)… what is the difference between the two code chunks and why doesn’t my line above work properly?

Answer 1

This is what I ended up with:

$post = $this->Post->find('first',array('conditions'=>array('Post.id'=>Tiny::reverseTiny($id))));

        if ($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put'))
        {
            $this->Post->id = $post['Post']['id'];
            if ($this->Post->save($this->request->data))
            {
                $this->Session->setFlash('Your post has been updated');
                $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index'));
            }
            else
            {
                $this->Session->setFlash('Server broke!');
            }
        }
        else 
        {
            if($post['Post']['user_id'] != $this->Auth->user('id'))
            {
                $this->Session->setFlash('Not yours!');
                $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index'));
            }
            else
            {               
                $this->request->data = $this->Post->read(null, $post['Post']['id']);
            }
        }