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Thanks Harro for your help.

Hi Harro,

I can't reproduce your problem. Test code:

        $user = \Model\Auth_User::find(7);
        var_dump($user);
        die();

Output (as you can see, _data[profile_fields] has become an array):

object(Auth\Model\Auth_User)[35]
  protected '_is_new' => boolean false
  protected '_frozen' => boolean false
  protected '_sanitization_enabled' => boolean false
  protected '_data' =>
    array (size=10)
      'id' => string '7' (length=1)
      'username' => string 'WanWizard' (length=9)
      'email' => string 'wanwizard@fuelphp.xxx' (length=21)
      'group' => string '50' (length=2)
      'password' => string 'nF0z+36kZ6qN8TEkqsfXLp5hoNtjtupcnBb0l/ixhDk=' (length=44)
      'profile_fields' =>
        array (size=3)
          'full_name' => string 'Harro Verton' (length=12)
          'timezone' => string 'Europe/London' (length=13)
          'dateformat' => string 'eu' (length=2)
      'last_login' => string '1360438873' (length=10)
      'login_hash' => string 'bfd71587f7b0071d4746fdadfdf5bf4c40b55122' (length=40)
      'created_at' => string '1330895272' (length=10)
      'updated_at' => null
  protected '_custom_data' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty
  protected '_original' =>
    array (size=10)
      'id' => string '7' (length=1)
      'username' => string 'WanWizard' (length=9)
      'email' => string 'wanwizard@fuelphp.xxx' (length=21)
      'group' => string '50' (length=2)
      'password' => string 'nF0z+36kZ6qN8TEkqsfXLp5hoNtjtupcnBb0l/ixhDk=' (length=44)
      'profile_fields' => string 'a:3:{s:9:"full_name";s:12:"Harro Verton";s:8:"timezone";s:13:"Europe/London";s:10:"dateformat";s:2:"eu";}' (length=107)
      'last_login' => string '1360438873' (length=10)
      'login_hash' => string 'bfd71587f7b0071d4746fdadfdf5bf4c40b55122' (length=40)
      'created_at' => string '1330895272' (length=10)
      'updated_at' => null
  protected '_data_relations' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty
  protected '_original_relations' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty
  protected '_reset_relations' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty
  protected '_disabled_events' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty
  protected '_view' => null
  protected '_iterable' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty

$user = \Model\Auth_User::query()->where('id', '=', 7)->get_one();

returns exactly the same. What is your exact query statement?

Here is my model

You still override the property definitions from the Auth model.

So remove $_observers and $_properties. The are all defined in the parent class. The tablename, although not needed, and all methods can stay.

If you need to add to a property that is defined in a parent class, use the _init() method. A complex example from one of our apps:

    /**
     * Model runtime initialisation
     */
    public static function _init()
    {
        // add te required observers
        static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_CreatedAt'] = array('events' => array('before_insert'),'property' => 'created_at', 'mysql_timestamp' => false);
        static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_UpdatedAt'] = array('events' => array('before_update'), 'property' => 'updated_at', 'mysql_timestamp' => false);
        if ( ! isset(static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_Self']))
        {
            static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_Self'] = array('events' => array('before_insert', 'before_update'), 'property' => 'user_id');
        }
        else
        {
            in_array('before_save', static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_Self']['events']) or static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_Self']['events'][] = array('before_insert', 'before_update');
        }
        static::$_observers['Orm\\Observer_Typing'] = array('events' => array('after_load', 'before_save', 'after_save'));

        // make sure required properties are defined
        isset(static::$_properties['user_id']) or static::$_properties['user_id'] = array('data_type' => 'int', 'default' => 0, 'null' => true, 'form' => array('type' => false));
        isset(static::$_properties['created']) or static::$_properties['created_at'] = array('data_type' => 'int', 'default' => 0, 'null' => true, 'form' => array('type' => false));
        isset(static::$_properties['updated']) or static::$_properties['updated_at'] = array('data_type' => 'int', 'default' => 0, 'null' => true, 'form' => array('type' => false));
    }

You're welcome.

It's something you've got to get to grips with I'm afraid, it's basic object oriented PHP, you'll encounter it more and more.