isownedby

IsOwnedBy-Behavior

The IsOwnedBy-Behavior is used to check easily of an entity is owned by a specific user.

Loading

You can load the behavior by the following code:

public function initialize(array $config) {
    // code
    $this->addBehavior('Utils.IsOwnedBy');
}

Configurations

Default, the behaviors watches the column user_id to check if the column contains the users user-id. This can be changed with this code:

public function initialize(array $config) {
    // code
    $this->addBehavior('Utils.IsOwnedBy', [
        'column' => 'created_by'
    ]);
}

Now, the column created_by will be used.

IsOwndBy-method

Via the method IsOwnedBy you can validate if the entity belongs to an user. Look at this example:

if($this->Articles->isOwnedBy($this->Articles->get(1), $user)) {
    // The article is owned by the user ($user)
} else {
    // The article isn't owned by the user ($user)
}

The first parameter can be an Entity or array. The second parameter is the user. Use $this->Auth->user(); in your controller to get the user.