Symfony Notes

If you are using sfGuardPlugin all you need to get id of a user that is currently logged in is this:

In your actions.class.php

$user_id = $this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->getId();

But this will cause fatal error if the user is not authenticated. We can prevent this with isAuthenticated().
// /apps/frontend/lib/myUser.class.php

class myUser extends sfGuardSecurityUser
{
     public function getUserId()
     {
        if($this->isAuthenticated())
           return $this->getGuardUser()->getId();
        else
           return 0;
      }
}

Mariusz Actions, Plugins, View sfGuardPlugin