How to get the id of the current user in symfony?

by mallory_cormier , in category: PHP Frameworks , 9 months ago

How to get the id of the current user in symfony?

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by deron , 9 months ago

@mallory_cormier 

In Symfony, you can get the id of the current user by accessing the User object through the security token in the controller or service.


Here is an example on how to get the id of the current user in Symfony:

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use SymfonyComponentSecurityCoreSecurity;

class YourController extends AbstractController
{
    private $security;

    public function __construct(Security $security)
    {
        $this->security = $security;
    }

    public function getCurrentUserId()
    {
        $user = $this->security->getUser();

        if ($user) {
            $userId = $user->getId();
            return $userId;
        }

        return null; // No user is currently logged in
    }
}


In this code snippet, we injected the Security service into the controller and then accessed the User object through the getUser() method. We then retrieved the id of the current user using the getId() method on the User object.


This will allow you to get the id of the current user in Symfony.