Populating a page selector with a logged in user id using ready.php hook

[cb2004]

I am building a system which has a page selector using the template user. When the page is added I wish to autopopulate the page_user field with the logged in user, but they can also change this should they wish. This doesnt seem to work:

$pages->addHookAfter("added", function($event) {
	$page = $event->arguments(0);

	if ($page->template->id == 57) {
		$page->setAndSave("page_user", $user);
	}
}

I have also tried numerous other things like $page->page_user = $user, and lots of variations but no joy. What does actually work is something like $page->setAndSave("page_user", 41); so its not reading the logged in $user, even if I do something like $user->id.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.

[LostKobrakai]

The function is a closure, which does have it's own variable scope, so local variables like $page or $user are not populated. You'd need to use one of those:

wire('user')
$this->user
$event->user

[cb2004]

Thanks as always LostKobrakai, went with $this->user.