Question

On my app a user may or may not have a profile. An example would be:

Array
(
    [User] => Array
        (
            [id] => 7
            [username] => noprofile
            [password] => 3b8cdb0c849f00f3634d9b29def1dac4e9235795
            [email] => [e-mail]
            [status] => 0
            [code] => 114a10ebb6ffe364805aa70cd44bee7c
        )

    [Profile] => Array
        (
            [id] => 
            [firstname] => 
            [lastname] => 
            [gender] => 
            [dob] => 
            [user_id] => 
        )

)

Here the user noprofile has no matching content in the profiles table.

How do I show a 404 for when this happens? I’ve tried:

public function view ( $username )
{
    $this->Profile->User->recursive = 2;

    $profile = $this->Profile->User->find('first', array( 
                'conditions' => array('User.username' => $username) 
            ));

    if (empty($profile))
    {
        echo 'echo1';
        throw new NotFoundException('No profile');
    }
    else {
        echo 'echo2';
    }

    $this->set(compact('profile'));
}

But it doesn’t show the 404! I’m using CakePHP 2.0.

It’s because it finds the user so therefore profile is not empty! How do I check for the profile being empty then?

Answer 1

if (empty($profile['Profile']['id'])) {
    throw new NotFoundException();
}

I expect there are better ways to do it but that’s a quick fix. $profile, as you said, will not be empty as the user is found.