Question

I’m trying to log every write operation so I’m using the afterSave and afterDelete callbacks in AppModel. Basically I need to log(for the moment): the model , the controller function, the loggedin user data and the remote ip
It seems that I was able to get all of them but I don’t know how to get the controller function name.
This is the aftersave function I have now:

public function afterSave($created) {
    App::uses('Folder', 'Utility');
    $month = date("y-m");
    if(!is_dir('../tmp/logs/'.$month)) {
        $dir = new Folder('../tmp/logs/'.$month, true);
    }
    App::uses('CakeSession', 'Model/Datasource');
    $user_id = CakeSession::read('Auth.User.username');
    if($created) {
        $id =   'New';
    } else {
        $id =   $this->data[$this->alias]['id'];
    }
    $str = 'WRITE Action. Model: '.$this->alias.'. Controller: functon_name. ID:'.$id.'. Username: '.$user_id.'. Client IP: '.$this->getIP();
    CakeLog::write($month.'/'.date("d-m-y"), $str);
}

Thanks

Answer 1

You’re doing this on the model, which has no knowledge of the controller (and really shouldn’t). I’d suggest copying the CakeRequest object to the model so you have that information. Here’s one way:

//controller
function beforeFilter() {
  $this->{$this->modelClass}->request = $this->request;
}

Then you can access the request object from the model. Use $this->request['params']['action'] to get the current dispatched action.

It’s worth suggesting that you might want to move this to the read() method on a custom datasource, as afterSave() can possibly be skipped and therefore not logged.