check auth session in controller

Question

Hi there,

I have used Auth component in my cakephp site. I want to check whether auth session is there or not from controller.

Please help.

Answer 1

You can access Auth component by $this->Auth from the controller.

$this->Auth->user() will give you the currently authenticated user. The information is taken from the session. If this method returns null, the user is not logged in.