Thanks to everyone for the responses its been a big help, i am still
stumped however, are getInsertID and getLastInsertID model functions?
If so how would i pass these to the views?
On Dec 29, 4:22 pm, Webweave <webwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you meant $this->User->getLastInsertId();
>
> On Dec 28, 9:59 am, Troy Schmidt <schmidt.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > $this->User->getInsertID();
>
> > I don't know about the Auth component as i haven't used it alot. But
> > that would get the last inserted ID. I would just set that variable
> > and include it in the view for the future steps.
>
> > Otherwise it looks like 'user_id' isn't set yet for user
>
> > On Dec 28, 11:11 am, Steppio <stepisgr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello everybody, i am totally new to Cake and am finding it quite
> > > difficult to understand all the different parts of it. At the moment
> > > i'm trying to make a three part user registration process, firstly
> > > with the username and password fields, then onto details about the
> > > user, then on to duties they wish to undertake on the site. The only
> > > problem i am having is once the username and password are created it
> > > creates an ID in the users tables, referenced to my other tables as
> > > 'user_id'. What i cannot quite figure out is how, once a user is
> > > created, would i get that user_id into the duties view? What i am
> > > doing at the moment is shown below:
>
> > > function add() {
> > > if (!empty($this->data)) {
> > > $this->User->create();
> > > if ($this->User->saveAll($this->data)) {
> > > $this->Session->setFlash(__('Your
> > > Username and Password have been
> > > saved', true));
> > > $cookie = array();
> > > $cookie['user_id'] =
> > > $this->Auth->user('user_id');
> > > $this->Session->write('Auth.User',
> > > $cookie);
> > >
> > > $this->redirect(array('controller'=>'details','action'=>'add'));
> > > } else {
> > > $this->Session->setFlash(__('Your
> > > Username and Password could not
> > > be saved. Please, try again.', true));
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
>
> > > ^users_ controller^
>
> > > I then call this in the 'duties/add' view with:
>
> > > $user_id = $session->read('User_id');
>
> > > echo $form->input('user_id',array('value' => $user_id ));
>
> > > The only problem with this is Cake returns a select box populated with
> > > all of the id's in the user tables. All i want is the ID that has just
> > > been created.
>
> > > This is probably a very simple problem but i've been reading alot on
> > > the internet and just cannot understand how to do it. Any help and
> > > advice would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> > > Yours hopefully,
> > > Steppio
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