# Displaying logged-in user in header

**URL:** <https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/displaying-logged-in-user-in-header/7666>\
**Category:** Need Help\
**Created:** [April 16, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/displaying-logged-in-user-in-header/7666 "2020-04-16T09:57:44Z")\
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I have no knowledge about ternary operator performance, but your solution was indeed what I meant by using CakePHP methodology. I stored this code in a variable such that the code doesn’t need to be inside the html.

However, I don’t understand why this works and does not result in the same error of `Record not found in table "users" with primary key [NULL]` since I thought this was due to the view($id=null) in UserController.php.

So I see from this that the current user and the Users functions can be accessed through controller (whereas $user is unknown). I made a [new topic](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/accessing-controller-authorization-through-template-view/7692) since I can’t apply similar access in the index View of Articles.

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