Are your User and Profile models not associated/related to each other
- User hasOne/belongsTo Profile?
If you have that relationship, then just query for the Profile with
user_id equal the Auth->user('id') :)
Enjoy,
   John

On Mar 22, 2:39 am, "Dave" <make.cake.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be odd but i have user email and profile email.
> User email is not published on the site (used for account, login, forgot
> stuff like that) profile email is published on the site so for security i
> figured that its best to use a separate email.
>
> So when a user wants to edit either of the emails i need to make sure they
> are not the same so both cant be myn...@somewhere.com.
>
> How would i validate 1 field based on 2 different models using Auth->id
> since the email is directly related to the logged in user?
>
> I figured query the opposite table to see if this users email is the same as
> this profile email (or vice versa depending onwhichis being changed) but how
> do i use the auth id in this?
>
> validation rule:
> array(
>     'rule' => array('notSameAsUser', 'email'),
>     'message' => 'Your public email address can not be the same as your
> account email.',
>     'last' => true)
>
> function:
>
> function notSameAsUser( $data ) {
>
>   $valid = false;
>
>   $params = array(
>    'conditions' => array('Profile.id' => $id),//how do i get the id from
> Auth in the model?
>    'fields' => array('User.email')
>    'contain' => array(
>     'User' => array(
>      'fields' => array(
>       'User.email'))));
>
>   $data $this->find('first', $params);
>
>         if (  $data['User']['email'] !=  $data['Profile']['email'] ) {
>                 $valid = true;
>
>         }
>
>         return $valid;
>
> }
>
> Dave

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