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By: Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » In Symfony, context objects should be given to models via setters

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:39:45 +0000

[...] guess I knew this, but it is good to be reminded. Check out the comment by Hugo: Retrieving a factory object (request, response, user, cache…) from the sfContext singleton is [...]

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symfonybr :: Symfony - Snippet - Maneiras de acessar o objeto User — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:18:58 +0000

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By: Arif

Arif — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:41:37 +0000

Thanks, it’s really very easy to understand , keep going on

By: pfwd

pfwd — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:12:16 +0000

Hi Jimmy,
I couldn’t get the following to work in my action:

1	$this->getUser->getUserId();

Even tho this worked:

1	$this->getUser->getUsername();

I did manage to get all the fields (including the id ) by adding getGuardUser() like so:

1	$this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->getId();

1	$this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->getUsername();

1	$this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->getCreatedAt();

This is a link to my source http://forum.symfony-project.org/index.php/m/75314/
Hope that helps

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:24:10 +0000

Hi Jimmy, sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getId(); should work anywhere but the view, but is the ugly way to do it as Hugo explains above. In an action you can use $this->getUser()->getId(); and in a view it will be $sf_user->getId(); If you can't get it to work then get in touch with me via my contact form and we'll take a closer look.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:19:22 +0000

Do you also now how to get the userID from a view, model, action etc?
I tried sfContext::getInstance()->getUserId(); and sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getId();

..?

Cheers, Jim

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:01:28 +0000

@hugo: Sorry for the delay in my reply, I’m currently on holiday :) Thanks for your insights on this problem & taking the time to share them here. I plan update this post with your solution when I get home & have some time to experiment with using this method for forms :)

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:11:51 +0000

Retrieving a factory object (request, response, user, cache…) from the sfContext singleton is the ugly way as it relies on a string couple between classes. The ideal way to use the context in a model is to pass it explicitly with a setter like below :

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class MyModelObject
{
private $user = null;

public function setUser(sfUser $user)
{
$this->user = $user;
}

public function save($conn = null)
{
$this->setUserId($this->user->getId());

return parent::save($conn);
}
}

And in the action :

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public function executeAction(sfWebRequest $request)
{
$obj = new MyModelObject();
$obj->setUser($this->getUser());

// You can access the context with $this->getContext();
}

Hugo.