CakePHP check if user is logged in inside a view

Question

I have the following code:

    Auth->user())
    {
        echo $this->element(\'header\');
    }
    else
    {
        e         


        

Answer 1

Note: Also check out meotimdihia's answer below. It's got a lot of upvotes.

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The Auth component is for use in the Controller. You'll want to check for authorization in the controller, then set a variable for the view, e.g., $this->set('authUser', $this->Auth->user());. Then in your view you can do:

if (!$authUser)
{
    echo $this->element('header');
}

If you want this to be done automatically for all controller methods, you can look into modifying cake/libs/controller/app_controller.php so that it includes the Auth component.

Answer 2

If it helps anyone out in cakephp version 3.7.8 session has been depriciated to getSession so to update Lee Nielsen's comment

if (is_null($this->request->getSession()->read('Auth.User.username'))) {

echo "....logged out";

} else {

echo "You are Logged in As " . $this->request->getSession()->read('Auth.User.username'); 

}

Answer 3

You need to set the user details from a controller, preferably the AppController which is inherited by all controllers across your site. Create/amend your app_controller.php to contain this beforeFilter(); method.

<?php
class AppController extends Controller {

function beforeFilter() {
    $user = $this->Auth->user();
    $this->set(compact('user'));
}

This will set a var called $user to the views which will be empty if the user is not logged in, or contain their data if they are.

Answer 4

I found something worth mentioning, In CakePHP 3.x session handler is deprecated,

if we want to access session in view, we can do it via request handler. we have to use

<?php
   // For CakePHP 3.x to access all user information
   $this->request->session()->read('Auth.User');

  // For CakePHP 3.x to check session
  if($this->request->session()->read('Auth.User.id')) {

  }
?>

Answer 5

To summarize the answers on this page, evaluate one of the following based on which version of CakePHP you are using:

For version 1.x

$this->Session->read('Auth.User')

For version 2.x

AuthComponent::user('id')

For version 3.x

$this->request->session()->read('Auth.User.id')

For version 4.x, using the Authentication component

$this->loadHelper('Authentication.Identity');
...
$this->Identity->isLoggedIn()

Answer 6

its been a while that I have used CakePHP but as far as I can remember CakePHP doesn't support Auth in View. What you can do of course is set a variable in the controller to use it in the view

<?
   class AppController {
     ....
     function beforeFilter(){
       ....
       $this->set('auth',$this->Auth);
     }
     ....
   }
?>

and then use it in the view like this

$auth->....

or you can use the AuthHelper written by Ritesh Agrawal

http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/ragrawal/2008/07/29/authhelper

BTW

I think if it comes to only test if somebody is logged in @webbiedave's answer is better MVC style wise.

Nevertheless if you have to access userdata in view the just extract the userinfo from Auth component and set it in the controller as I showed you and use it in the view

Regards