I'd go with euromark's answer :) He's right about the field being easily
manipulated.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ed Propsner <[email protected]> wrote:

> A hidden field could accomplish exactly what you are looking to do.
>
> $form->input('User.user_id', array('type' => 'hidden', 'value' =>
> $this->Session->read('Auth.User.id'));
>
> The user id will accessible in your controller through $this->data
>
> HTH
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Paul Wheatley <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a add view that you have to be logged in to get to.
>>
>> What i am trying to do is add the UserID of the person creating the record
>> to the table so that later i can display only posts that relate to him/her.
>>  I have a field called user_id and sort of hoped that Cake would do a
>> similar thing to "created" and just fill it in but alas no.
>>
>> I think what i need to do is create a hidden field in my form thats value
>> is generated from the Auth session data but i am not sure how to go about
>> it.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
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