Re: Question about relationships, extending the blog tutorial

Glad to hear you were able to get that resolved.

Check out the documentation for the Auth component
http://book.cakephp.org/view/172/Authentication, in particular the
user method http://book.cakephp.org/view/387/user.

On Feb 24, 3:04 pm, deek <derek.bon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andy,
>
> It looks like the debug issue was the problem and everything is now
> working properly.
>
> My final question is this.  Once a user is logged on (through the
> built-in Auth of CakePHP), what built-in functions should I use to
> determine that user's id number? For that matter what is a good way to
> test of a user is logged on or not? I ask because I would like some
> options/posts to be shown only to logged in (Admin) users.
>
> Currently this is my form for creating an new post:
> <h1>Add Post</h1>
> <?php
> echo $form->create('Post');
> echo $form->input('title');
> echo $form->input('category');
> echo $form->input('body', array('rows' => '10', 'columns' => '40'));
> echo $form->radio('frontpage', array('1'=>'Yes','0'=>'No'));
> echo $form->end('Save Post');
> ?>
>
> I want to thank everyone who has helped out with my questions.
>
> On Feb 24, 7:21 am, Andy Dirnberger <andy.dirnber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > If you have debug set to 0 in core.php and added displayname to the
> > user table after Cake first saw the it, you need to update the cache
> > of the table's layout. (Either set debug to 1, reload the page, and
> > set it back to 0 or delete the file in tmp.)
>
> > On Feb 24, 2:36 am, deek <derek.bon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Also when I try and add a user with this form
> > > <h1>Add User</h1>
> > > <?php
> > >     echo $form->create('User', array('action' => 'register'));
> > >     echo $form->input('username');
> > >     echo $form->input('displayname');
> > >     echo $form->input('password');
> > >     echo $form->end('Add User');
> > > ?>
>
> > > the displayname never makes it to the MySQL database. I have no idea
> > > why not
>
> > > On Feb 23, 11:27 pm, deek <derek.bon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Well everything seems to be working now with "var $belongsTo =
> > > > array('User');" but I have tried putting "<?php echo $post['User']
> > > > ['displayname']; ?>" in my index.ctp and the it does not output any of
> > > > the information.  If I put <?php echo $post['User']['id']; ?> or <?php
> > > > echo $post['User']['username']; ?> those values will output just fine
> > > > but not displayname, what might cause this?
>
> > > > On Feb 23, 8:36 pm, Andy Dirnberger <andy.dirnber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Did you try just using "var $belongsTo = array('User');"? The values
> > > > > you are supplying for className and foreignKey should be the defaults.
>
> > > > > If you remove the $belongsTo piece, do your posts show up again? If
> > > > > not, what else did you change? What code do you currently have in your
> > > > > controller? No special code is needed in your controller to handle
> > > > > relationships, and you'd only need to add code to your User model
> > > > > (e.g., var $hasMany = array('Post');) if you wanted posts to be
> > > > > retrieved every time you query your user table, which you probably
> > > > > don't.
>
> > > > > Once you have it working, 'User'] will be added as an index alongside
> > > > > 'Post' (e.g., $post['User']['displayname']).
>
> > > > > On Feb 23, 5:16 pm, deek <derek.bon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > So I updated my post model to what you see below and now when I go to
> > > > > > my index (index.ctp) view that I have listed on my first post nothing
> > > > > > shows up. Do I need to add anything in the controllers or the user
> > > > > > model?  Once get it to show properly how would I call the the User
> > > > > > displayname in my foreach loop in the index.ctp?
>
> > > > > > class Post extends AppModel {
> > > > > >     var $name = 'Post';
> > > > > >     var $belongsTo = array (
> > > > > >         'User' => array(
> > > > > >             'className' => 'User',
> > > > > >             'foreignKey' => 'user_id'
> > > > > >         )
> > > > > >     );
> > > > > >     var $validate = array (
> > > > > >         'title' => array(
> > > > > >             'rule' => 'notEmpty'
> > > > > >         ),
> > > > > >         'category' => array(
> > > > > >             'rule' => 'notEmpty'
> > > > > >         ),
> > > > > >         'body' => array(
> > > > > >             'rule' => 'notEmpty'
> > > > > >         ),
> > > > > >         'frontpage' => array(
> > > > > >             'rule' => 'numeric'
> > > > > >         )
> > > > > >     );}
>
> > > > > > On Feb 23, 12:01 am, WebbedIT <p...@webbedit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > ^^ What @Andy says is right.
>
> > > > > > > Simple rule of thumb for hasMany/hasOne <-> belongsTo
> > > > > > > relationships ... whichever model your foreign_key is in, it belongs
> > > > > > > to the other model.
>
> > > > > > > Welcome to CakePHP, it should make learning complex PHP a lot easier
> > > > > > > for you.  I sometimes wish I hadn't taught myself a lot of bad habits
> > > > > > > by learning raw PHP first :)

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