Question

I’m trying to retrieve the user id in a cakephp view, what’s the best practise to achieve that?
since Auth->user('id') is only usable in controller, what’s to be used in views?

Edit :

I fixed it by using this in the controller:

$id = $this->Auth->user('id');
$this->set("user_id",$id);

then in the view of the controller I just retrieve $user_id.

Answer 1

Use the Session helper.

var $helpers = array('Session'); // controller

// view
$this->Session->read('Auth.User'); // returns complete user record
$this->Session->read('Auth.User.email'); // returns email for logged in user