Am trying to retrieve the identity 'value' of the authenticated user

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public function updateLastLogin() {

$login_data = $this->_getFormData();
$id = $this->_getAdminID($login_data);
$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$admins = new Admins();
$rowset = $admins->find($id)->current();
$rowset->LastLogin = $now;
$rowset->save();


}

protected function _getAdminID() {

$auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();
$user = $auth->getIdentity();
$admins = new Admins();
$select = $admins->fetchRow($admins->select()->where('UserName = ?',$user));
return $select->AdminID;


...

}[/code]

Now i want to retrieve the id of the admin by getting the identity(getIdentity()) and then query my model (Admins) for the id of the admin for update.

Shouldnt getIndentity return the value for username e.g 'dele454' at the moment i cant echo the value stdClass error in order to see what the value the $user holds.

How can i ?

Sorted!!

The getIdentity() function of the Auth class returns and associative array - an stdClass Object.

So in order for me to get the id from the authenticated identity. i simply used the follwing codes

funny enough i didnt need to instantiate my Admins Table class in order to get the id of the admin. getIdentity() returns the whole row of the admin identified from the db. - very powerful function!!!

so

returns something like this:

With all the blabbings on my last post this single line of code does all that i mentioned.

SIMPLE!!! Makes sense because $user is an object representing the identified admin record