Display current logged-in user

Question

I'm using Symfony and sfDoctrineGuardPlugin.

How do I display, in a template, the username of the current user ?

I've tried $this->getUser()->getUsername(), but all I get is the error : "Call to undefined method sfPHPView::getUser."

I'm trying to display the username in a layout.php, not in a particular module/template

Answer 1

In a template (view), use $sf_user:

For the username:

echo $sf_user->getUsername();

For the id:

echo $sf_user->getAttribute('user_id', null, 'sfGuardSecurityUser');

Or, in an action (controller), you can do what you're doing in your question:

$this->username = $this->getUser()->getUsername();

and then $username will be available in your view template.

See template shortcuts in the Symfony docs for other view variable shortcuts.