cakephp 2.0 how to update auth data?

Question

when I update data in the User model, the Auth data is not updated.

How can I "refresh" the data which is returned by $this->Auth->user() when I am updating user model ?

and I don't want to use

$this->Auth->login($data);

after updating my user table

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '12 at 05:28

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I tried the following line. Its works well form me After modify the user data i written the following line

 $this->Session->write('Auth', $this->User->read(null, $this->Auth->User('id')));

answered Nov 26 '12 at 05:28

AnNaMaLaI

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You should not try to work around the Auth Component. If the session keys in there would be changed, you solution would immediately. – func0der Jun 13 '16 at 11:21
Down-vote because the correct way to do this using something like: `$this->Auth->login($newUserData);` See func0der's answer. – Tomas Gonzalez Jun 19 '16 at 03:50
Its some thing like Again need to authenticate the user, already the user is logged in So is this is the recommended way please let me know @deceze [~deceze] – AnNaMaLaI Jul 26 '16 at 02:40

Everton Yoshitani · Answer 2 · 2012-11-19T04:24:06.823

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Write the updated data to the Session eg:

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

Before CakePHP 2.x you can't do this in the model without break the framework design.

With CakePHP 2.x you can load the Session Component from models and update it.

edited Nov 19 '12 at 04:24

answered Nov 18 '12 at 14:54

Everton Yoshitani

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I would like to get a comment from the user that down voted this. Why not provide any feedback. – Everton Yoshitani Nov 19 '12 at 04:23
I did not do it, but it is the same answer, I have given to @Annamalai.Somasundaram here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13440820/cakephp-2-0-how-to-update-auth-data/13443607#comment63042801_13559136 – func0der Jun 13 '16 at 11:22

func0der · Answer 3 · 2016-06-13T13:20:18.313

evert0ns answer is right. But you should use AuthComponent::login(), because the data is saved within the AuthComponent as well and is not fetched from the session every time.

I had the problem just a couple of days ago.

// AppController.php
/**
 * Renews current user data, e.g. in case of an email address change while being logged in.
 *
 * @param array $newUserData
 * @return void
 */
    protected function renewUserSession($newUserData){
            if(!isset($newUserData) || empty($newUserData)){
                    return;
            }

            // We need to fetch the current user data so custom indexes are copied
            $currentUserData = $this->Auth->user();
            if(!isset($currentUserData) || empty($currentUserData)){
                    return;
            }

            // Merge old with new data
            $newUserData = array_merge($currentUserData, $newUserData);

            // Login with new data
            $this->Auth->login($newUserData);
    }

Source: my paste

Put this in your AppController. The method is specialized to merge the current and the new user data to keep existing custom indexes that you may have provided. I needed this, but you can leave it out though. Give the updated user data as a parameter to the method. Not in model find form. E.g.:

$data = array(
    'User' => array(
        'username' => 'bla',
        'passwort' => 'fu',
        'email' => 'hu@bar.com'
    )
);

// Wrong
$this->renewUserSession($data);

// Right
$this->renewUserSession($data['User']);

@Fr0zenFyr I do not quite get what you want from me here. ^^ — func0der, Jun 13 '16 at 11:25
I don't want anything, was just pointing out that `array_merge()` used to combine actual session and new values is the hero of your solution to avoid overwriting anything. Cheers! — Fr0zenFyr, Jun 13 '16 at 11:31
@Fr0zenFyr Ah, okay ^^ I thought you wanted me to add something to the question here ^^ — func0der, Jun 13 '16 at 13:19

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 08 '14 at 16:47

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I solved this problem using afterSave function in User Model. It's working fine if we update user model from any area. My code was as below :

class User extends AppModel {
    ... ... ...
    public function afterSave($created, $options = array()){
        parent::afterSave($created,$options);

        //updating authentication session
        App::uses('CakeSession', 'Model/Datasource');
        CakeSession::write('Auth',$this->findById(AuthComponent::user('id')));

        return true;
    }
    ... ... ...
}

answered Mar 08 '14 at 16:47

monsur.hoq

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What if the user model was modified out of the browser session? like in a shell script or cronjob? – Jorge Ramirez Jun 07 '16 at 18:17
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See comment to @Annamalai.Somasundaram answer. Do not directly modify the session. – func0der Jun 13 '16 at 11:24

Tomas Gonzalez · Answer 5 · 2016-06-19T19:33:56.093

I think func0der's answer is good, but it may be improved:

protected function renewLogin() {
    if(!empty($this->Auth->user())) {
        $this->loadModel('User');
        $this->User->contain(false);
        $user = $this->User->read(null, $this->Auth->user('id'))['User'];
        unset($user['password']);
        $this->Auth->login($user);
    }
}

You can add this to your AppController.php and use it from any controller after modifying the logged in user.

I believe it's much cleaner and even though it implies access to the database, I think it's not going to be executed often enough to be an issue.

You should ALWAYS try to do things the "Cake" way. And avoid shortcuts like editing a session variable. It'll make things easier for you on the long run.

Please comment and add your opinions :)

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 29 '17 at 18:56

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I think that the simpler way to do this is:

$user = $this->Auth->user();
$user['attribute'] = $newValue;
$this->Auth->setUser($user);

answered Jun 29 '17 at 18:56

Viviane Tolomeotti

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This is not 2.x! – mark Jun 29 '17 at 19:48

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 21 '20 at 09:03

CakePHP 4 answer: -

$this->Authentication->getResult()->getData()->offsetSet('fullname', $user->fullname);

Where fullname is to be replaced by the user entity's field-name you have changed.

There may be a better way, but this is what I found after a lot of playing (and at this moment CakePHP 4 API has yet to be published https://api.cakephp.org/4.0/)

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