Question

In my view i am trying to display the current logged in users information and have figured i can do this by using

echo "Welcome back " .$this->Session->read('Auth.User.username'). "

This displays the username and i can use the same approach to display the other fields in that database row, however some of the other fields can update at anytime but does not update on the users page until they logout and login again.

Is this correct way to do it? or can this be done a better way and somehow put some code in the beforeFilter() in AppController to continue to update the variables on each page load?

Answer 1

I prefer to get the real time data instead of the session data

var $uses = array('User');

function beforeFilter(){
    $id = $this->Auth->user('id'); //Using the session's user id is fine because it doesn't change/update
    $user_data = $this->User->findById($id);
    $user_fname = $user_data['User']['fname'];
    $this->set('fname', $user_fname);
}

//In your view
echo 'Welcome Back '. $fname . '!';