Getting associated models with $this->Auth in Cakephp

Question

I am using CakePHP 2.0\'s integrated Auth component. I have the following tables :

• Users
• Groups
• Profiles

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware the Auth component only caches the data from your Users model. You can use that information to retrieve the desired data from the other models, by for example using this in your controller:

$group_data = $this->Group->findById($this->Auth->user('group_id'));

Or

$profile_data = $this->Profile->findByUserId($this->Auth->user('id'));

But I don't think you can get it from the Auth component directly, as it doesn't cache the related model data out of the box.