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
>
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