Find by other than ID

My USERS in my application all have a unique slug. example profile/johndoe

 

Now when John wants to edit his profile all of his data is found by his ID and not his SLUG. How can I get the ID of John based on his SLUG? Basically use the slug for the URL then in the controller get the USER SLUG and convert it into the USER ID.

 

for example in the controller to edits Johns favourite Artists:

 

function update_artists($slug = null)
    {
        if ($this->RequestHandler->isAjax()) {
            $this->set('user', $this->Artist->User->findBySlug($slug));//there is no slug in the artists table, just ID
            if (!empty($this->data)) {
                if ($this->User->save($this->data)) {
                }
            }
            $artists= $this->Artist->User->find('list', array('fields' => artist, 'order' => artist ASC'));
            $this->set(compact('artists'));
        }
        if (empty($this->data)) {
            $this->data = $this->Artist->findBySlug($slug);
        }
    }

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

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