Limit results seen by users

Here are a couple of nifty functions I came across, to limit the results that are returned in a Cake app.

When using the find() function, by default it will return all of the results. These two methods if placed in the appModel will only return results that are associated with a given user.

<?php  
function findMy($type, $options=array()) 
{ 
   if($this->hasField('user_id') && !empty($_SESSION['Auth']['User']['id'])){ 
      $options['conditions'][$this->alias.'.user_id'] = $_SESSION['Auth']['User']['id']; 
      return parent::find($type, $options); 
   } 
   else{ 
      return parent::find($type, $options); 
   } 
} 

function deleteMy($id = null, $cascade = true){ 
   if (!empty($id)) { 
      $this->id = $id; 
   } 
   $id = $this->id; 

   if($this->hasField('user_id') && !empty($_SESSION['Auth']['User']['id'])){ 
      $opt = array( 
         'conditions' => array( 
            $this->alias.'.user_id' => $_SESSION['Auth']['User']['id'], 
            $this->alias.'.id' => $id, 
            ), 
         ); 
      if($this->find('count', $opt) > 0){ 
         return parent::delete($id, $cascade); 
      } 
   } 
   return false 
} 
?>