calling Yii::$app->user->identity->getAuthKey()

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I have created a new folder in yii2 at same level with backend and frontend to handle rest api calls. This folder contains a module for apis. It has a models with a User.php model. Am not using the one in common folder as this model is special to this module. Inside it, I have a method called


    public function getAuthKey() {

        return $this->auth_key;

    }

. So when I to try to call this method in my user controller as


Yii::$app->user->identity->getAuthKey()

, it returns null. I don’t know why I think it might be trying to get the one from user class in common folder and not from the one in the module. Please help.

2

That’s normally. Let see in the common/config/main.php, you can see the user component config like bellow


'user' => [

    'identityClass' => 'common\models\User',

    'enableAutoLogin' => true,

],

And then you call


Yii::$app->user

.

It mean you call user component user registed in common config and one instance of


common\models\User

will be return. So that’s your problem

3

Then how can I use the one in my module.