Re: HABTM and user login

That's what I've done in the past when I want to include data that
Auth doesn't automatically store. IIRC, you can write to the Auth.User
key; the data will then be available from the user() method.

$this->Session->write('Auth.User.group', $group_data);

Retrieve with $this->Auth->user('group')

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Álvaro G. Vicario
<alvaro@demogracia.com> wrote:
> I have a User model to use built-in authentication. The model has several
> $hasOne relationships and all linked models get saved automatically into
> session, which is great because I can call AuthComponent::user() whenever I
> need to perform an action based on user data.
>
> Now, I've added a $hasAndBelongsToMany relationship to indicate that a user
> can belong to zero or more groups. However, information about the Group
> model doesn't show up anywhere in the Auth component. I can definitively
> perform a manual User->find() and groups will be there but
> AuthComponent::user() does not contain group information. I've tried
> everything I could think of, including the contain option. I know I'm using
> contain right because it makes valid models appear and it complains for
> non-existant models, but Group is simply ignored.
>
> In the end I had to write a hack in my login function: make a manual find()
> and incorporate the 'Group' key to session data.
>
> Is this a known limitation?
>
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