Re: Learning cakePHP debugging

I have used DebugKit with great success. Here is the article about it:

http://thechaw.com/debug_kit/wiki

You get a toolbar at the top of the window with access to tons of
stuff. It does not do line by line debugging. I would like to use
FirePHP for adding breakpoints and watching variables, but I have not
have had the time to figure it out yet. There are instructions for it,
I just don't understand them yet.

p.s.: Thanks for sharing your code. I'm doing something similar, but
like your use of elements. I appreciate the example!

On Sep 2, 9:57 am, LunarDraco <mdc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $activeUser = $this->User->find(array($this->Auth->user('id')));
> Not sure I understand why you set the active user with this line:
> as $this->Auth->user() should contain everything you need from the
> user model.
>
> After a user is logged in you never tell the auth component that the
> user has logged out. So even after logging out this->Auth->user
> contains a valid user.
> I suppose after you've logged out and you click on your login link
> from the home page it probably never asks for new credentials and goes
> straight to the start page.
>
> At the end of your logout you should be calling:
> $this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
>
> That will clear the $this->Auth->user() object and you can test for it
> via:
> if($this->Auth->user())
>
> You'll want to set in your beforeFilter:
> $this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'
> => 'home');
>
> which should take care of your redirect to the home page when a user
> logs out.
>
> On Sep 2, 7:54 am, McScreech <scre...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > @Martin, thanks. debug($activeUser); returns the type of output I was
> > expecting.
>
> > @abc, I'll look into the php version also.
>
> > Now on to my problem, once I actually stopped to _read_ the debug
> > output I realized that the $activeUser variable is NOT CHANGING when I
> > log out and log back in again. In addition to the partial setup that I
> > described above, here are the login and logout functions in my
> > users_controller.php:
>
> >         function login() {
> >                 if( $this->Auth->user() ) {
> >                         // Redirect to start page.
> >                         $this->redirect( array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> > 'start') );
> >                 }
> >         } // end login()
>
> >         function logout() {
> >                 $this->Session->destroy();
> >                 $this->Session->SetFlash(__('Successfully logged out', true));
> >                 $this->redirect( array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> > 'home') );
> >         } // end logout()
>
> > I am using php 5.2.9-1 and cakePHP 1.2.3.8166.
>
> > Thanx again, McS.
>
>
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