Ok. I'll take a look. Many thanks for your help! On Apr 25, 11:01 pm, rtconner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are going to need to use an Auth component of some sort. There are > several available on the bakery. As of yet there is no standard way of > doing Authentication. I guess look over > othAuth, dAuth, obAuth, etc and see which one you want to use, and > then I think you can work from there finding out how you will handle > accessing authentication data. > > On Apr 25, 3:34 pm, Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now I'm stopping to think about this a bit more, I've got another > > question related to this... > > > How do you actually check to see whether the user is logged in? I was > > thinking of setting something to identify the user as logged in for > > that visitor's session (e.g. their user_id) - but so far as I > > understand, you can only use $this->Session->read() in a controller? > > So how can I read the session data from an element? > > > On Apr 25, 10:16 pm, rtconner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've used Elements in my layouts frequently. There is no reason not to > > > do it. $this->renderElement(...); > > > Yes, you can put logic into your layout. Best practices depends on > > > your system. If you want to redirect them elsewhere, if they are not > > > logged in I'd think you want to do that in a controller or componant. > > > If really depends on the auth system you are using. > > > > I have some simple logic in my layouts that look kind of like this > > > (psuedo code) > > > > if(user->is_logged_in) > > > print username > > > else > > > print <a href="login">Log In</a> > > > > On Apr 25, 2:47 pm, Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm quite new to working with Cake and I'm pretty sure that I'm asking > > > > something obvious - so I'm sorry for that in advance. In my defence, > > > > I've tried checking the manual, API, searching on here etc. and > > > > haven't found the answer to my question (or maybe not understood the > > > > answer to my question!). > > > > > I'm going to have a login box on every page of my site which will form > > > > part of the site header / mast head. > > > > > If the user is not logged in it will display the login box, and if > > > > they are it'll display some member-only type functions (e.g. edit > > > > profile, logout etc.). > > > > > I'm not quite sure how to go about that in Cake - in terms of where to > > > > define my various pieces of code. Obviously the login processing stuff > > > > belongs in a user controller, but other than that? > > > > > I'm thinking that my login box is what Cake terms an 'element' - I've > > > > only come across these used in views; can they also be used in a > > > > layout (is there are significant difference between layouts and > > > > views)? > > > > > Assuming that's right, where do I check to see if the user is logged > > > > in or out - is it "appropriate" (i.e. best practice) to put that logic > > > > in the layout? That seems to make sense to me since it's only deciding > > > > which display element to use? > > > > > Thanks in advance for putting up with my questions. > > > > > Damien
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