Accessing auth session data (Lithium + MongoDB)

Question

Okay, so hopefully I am asking this question correctly:

I set up my user model & controller, as well as my session model and controller... but I want to render some of the session info onto a page.

for example
If I were to login to a page, it would read "Brian" (or whatever my username is that I used for my login)

I hope I am not asking a repeated question -- I have searched this question pretty extensively and haven't found a solution yet. Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

If your session (set in a config/bootstrap file) is called "default" then just run check ...

$user = Auth::check('default');

Then $user will have an array of the user data in the session, so if you have a first_name field in your database/session you could do:

echo $user["first_name"];

I created a helper to clean this up a little, I called it: extensions/helper/Login.php

<?php

namespace app\extensions\helper;
use lithium\security\Auth;

class Login extends \lithium\template\Helper {

    public function user() {

        $user = Auth::check('default');

        return $user;
    }

    public function fullName() {

        $user = self::user();

        return $user["first_name"] . " " . $user["last_name"];
    }

}

?>

Then in my Views I used it like ...

<?=$this->login->fullName(); ?>