Thanks Amit. I think i've cracked auth in 1.2 and the "remember me" cookie issue. I'll go try and work out ACL now, if I can i'll put a fully working sample project up somewhere.
On Feb 5, 12:59 am, "Amit Badkas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 5:13 PM, Tim W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > Thanks mostly to the tutorial linked below I have basic auth working > > in my project. I can create a user in the database (that took a while > > to figure out), have users view public content without logging in, and > > make users log in before they go to a page that's for registered only. > > So far I haven't figured out quite how it works, but it seems to. What > > i'm trying to do is show the "edit" link on a webpage only to > > administrators. > > > I have a few questions, the first being by far the most important: > > 1) How do I get the username and group (or just the user object) of > > the user currently logged in? I've looked at everything in my debugger > > and can't spot the information anywhere. > > - If you are using CakePHP-1.2's built-in Auth component then, in controller > then use $this->Auth->user() to get all user data or > $this->Auth->user('field_name') to get that field's value and if you are in > view then use $session->read('Auth.UserModelName') to get all user data > (change the UserModelName to your need) or $session->read(' > Auth.UserModelName.field_name') to get particular field's value > > -- > Regards, > Amit > > http://amitrb.wordpress.com/http://coppermine-gallery.net/http://cheesecake-photoblog.org/http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/author/amitbadkas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---