OK, so using $this-Category-reorder(); reorders all the children of
a given category (in this example), and their children, and so on, but
is there any way to reorder _all_ the categories, including the top
level ones?
I see now the point about my code not doing anything more than the
original
Hi.
I'm trying to order a tree such that for any given node on the tree,
all its children appear alphabetically, including the top level.
If I understand the reorder() method correctly (it has sparse
documentation at http://book.cakephp.org/view/229/Advanced-Usage#reorder-518
but the API at
Hi.
I've got a model, Product, which has its $order variable set to
'Product.name ASC'. Usually this works fine, as you'd expect.
The tricky bit is that Product hABTM itself. When it does this, it
obviously needs to give the second instance of itself a different
className to avoid conflicts,
Hi!
I'm using Router::parseExtensions and RequestHandler to recognise
extensions, which is working great. I can set up example.com/widgets/
do_stuff and also example.com/widgets/do_stuff.xml, and both work as
expected.
When I try passing an argument, I would have expected the URL should
look
I believe this may be the same issue I'm experiencing. After a bit of
investigation, I've found out the issue is that specifying contain
would appear to affect things in subsequent queries.
For example, say I have Cart hasMany CartedProduct belongsTo Product
belongsTo Brand. Product also
Hi.
I believe I've found a bug in CakePHP, but as Occam's razor means it's
more likely to be something I'm personally doing wrong, I felt I
should ask here first.
I've set up a few prefixes in /app/config/routes.php like this:
Router::Connect('/some_prefix/:controller/:action/*',
var $hasMany = 'Bid';
I could be wrong here, but I *think* that this has to be an array,
even if there's only one item in it. As in:
var $hasMany = array(
'Bid' = array(
'className' = 'Bid'
)
);
Does updating that help at all?
Zoe.
Nope, your can not use composite keys with cakephp, you have to have
an ID (or a field that you use as the primary, auto-incrementing id) -
search the group for more background on this.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought joiner tables for HABTM
relationships were the exception to
Hi.
I've made an error page at /app/views/errors/error404.ctp which, as
you might expect, has /app/views/layouts/default.ctp wrapped around
it. The problem I've got is that the default layout relies on
variables being set in /app/app_controller.php's beforeFilter(), which
doesn't seem to be
Hi.
I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about, but no one else has
spoken up, so here goes...
The way I would get the aggregate would not be to change the
finderQuery in the hasAndBelongsToMany definition. It didn't even
occur to me that you could do that. Then again, maybe I'm just
(a) If I go to /users/add, I get the following SQL error: 1064: You
have an error in your SQL syntax; ... near 'bid_session_registrations`
AS `BidSessionRegistration` WHERE 1 = 1' at line 1 [CORE\cake\libs
\model\datasources\dbo_source.php, line 512]. Query: SELECT
Gidday,
I've done a few sites in CakePHP about 6 months ago and I'm trying to
upload one of them to a new host and it's not working. Have a look for
yourself and see if it's something you recognize - nothing is working!
This site is working flawlessly on my Windows WAMP5 server, but not
now
Hi.
Sorry if this is obvious, but is it possible to set recursion to only
go down (to things that belong to the model in question), and not up
(to things that the model belongs to)? I've got a model that I've been
recursing four levels deep, which has been working fine. Now, though,
I've come to
Hi!
but when i point the browser to;http://localhost/posts/
it shows: The requested URL /posts was not found on this server.
any ideas what i could be doing wrong?
It sounds like you have debugging set to 0 (off). If you edit app/
config/core.php, you can change it to 1 or 2 in order to
Thanks, Keymaster! It was one of those cases of not knowing what to
look up in the first place. Now you've pointed me in the right
direction, I'm trying just unbindModel to begin with, and if that's
not a feasible solution, I'll use Bindable.
Thanks again,
Zoe.
First, set the data to the model:
$this-ModelName-set( $this-data );
$this-ModelName-set( $this-data );
Then, to check if the data validates, use the validates method of the
model, which will return true if it validates and false if it doesn't:
if
Hi.
I'm about to try and write a bit of code that, based on data from one
form, will insert some of the form's data into a record in one model,
and the rest into a related record in another model.
Before you point me at these threads:
when I create an entry in the database with the scaffolding interface,
it's possible to save german umlauts. The scaffolding webpages display
the entered characters correct, except in input fields (if try to edit
such an entry) or drop down boxes. The content is not corrupt, it's
empty. It
Can you explain why you want to do this? For what circumstance do
they need a persistent unique value?
The only thing I can think of is to store data on a persistent medium
- ie database or file. And in both of these cases you can easily
generate a unique one (file / row), and just store
Hi again!
I'm using the session component, as documented at
http://manual.cakephp.org/view/173/sessions , and it's storing and
retrieving all the session variables I set just fine.
However, I'm trying to find the session ID - or anything else that's
unique to each visitor, but doesn't change
Hi.
Just a quick routing question. Again, I'm probably missing something
simple but couldn't work it out from the documentation or previous
posts...
I've got this route set up:
Router::connect('/', array(
'controller' = 'webpages',
'action' = 'view',
'home'
));
This is great as long as
After a *lot* of trial and error, I've finally fixed this!
What was happening was this:
App::import('Model', 'Person');
Was, through a long winded bunch of entity-relationship type
associations, making CakePHP read in my Categories model.
$this-PersonTemp = new Person(); # This conflicts
I've just tried this on my new project, and it's great! The only
problem I've got is that the prev and next links don't include the
article:3 parameter. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
After finding the previous discussions of this, I think I've fixed it
by changing the following
but how can i paginate the articles and not the categories?
Try linking to /articles/index/categories:category-slug instead of /
categories/view/category-slug
This will go to the index function in your articles controller. Try
printing out $this-params['named'] - notice how it's an array with
I need to acces a controller action
through a subdomain. I mean, if the user browse to jose.domain.com, it needs
to be the same as www.domail.com/profiles/view/jose(where
controller=profiles, action=view, param1=jose)
I could be wrong, but I think that's not really possible. For a start,
Thanks, that makes sense. So to get the data into a format like it is
in your example, I've reverted back to how I was making the form
earlier. Instead of adding multiple type elements like this:
echo $form-input('Category.multi_field', array(
'options' = $categories,
'label' = 'Categories',
OK, here's the complete view. I would suspect I've stumbled across a
CakePHP bug to do with having multiple multi tickboxes in the same
form, but I'm hesitant to draw such hasty conclusions - in the past
it's always been a bug of my own.
?php
echo $form-create();
if
That's really odd... $this-data looks fine for my project now too...
Array
(
[Product] = Array
(
[id] = 6
[name] = Classic Men's Parka
)
[Category] = Array
(
[Category] = Array
(
[0] = 4
Ah, someone else has just e-mailed me with the fix, namely inserting
this line:
$newValues = array();
...before line 1283 of /cake/libs/model/model.php. Phew!
If either of you are ever in the UK, let me buy you both a drink. :)
Thank you both very much,
Zoe.
I think, you're missing something
(http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/msg/60f9b49f7209d8b9 ) It's one of
the craziest thing in
automagic.
Wow, you're right, I really was!
So you can link to, for instance, /items/index/article:3 in order to
list (paginated) all items belonging to
now heres whats weird. I know its linking because it is getting the
background and font colors I specified but it doesn't get most other
things.
Is there anywhere we can see this in action? It should be pretty easy
to debug using Firefox's developer toolbar and its inspect element
option (I
Hi.
Sorry to bother you all again, but I've got a curious bug I just can't
fathom. In my /app/app_controller.php I've got the following code as
part of a routine that works out whether the user's logged in or not:
App::import('Model', 'Person');
$this-PersonTemp = new Person(); # This conflicts
Yes. The easiest way is to create this page as something like /items/
view_items_of_article/article_id instead of /articles/view/article_id
so that you can just use $this-paginate the way you normally would.
Zoe.
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A little bit of advice, for what it's worth:
If you have a Unix machine with Apache on it, it can be worth trying
to get your project to work locally first before trying to get it to
work on someone else's server. That way you can ensure you have
mod_rewrite turned on, and so on.
As I point
Hi.
I'm using this spiffy new automatically-generating-multiple-tickboxes
part of the form helper like this:
echo $form-input('Colour.multi_field', array(
'options' = $colours,
'label' = 'Colours',
'multiple' = 'checkbox',
'error' = array(
Hi Zoe, could you post the controller code?
The thing is it's all in app_controller. I've made a scoffolding-esque
set of admin pages that apply to pretty much every model. After
checking the user's an admin, it works out the controller name, model
name, checks if $this-data is empty, then
Oh, interesting...
Yeah, I'll be happy to include it in my publicly shared code just as
soon as I can get the thing working. :)
How about a full output of $this-data then? I know I have had
problems saving if the array is not in the correct order. i.e. If you
try to do $this-Product-save()
OK, whatever I'm doing wrong, it's probably the exact same thing I'm
doing wrong with this code (I've put it public before it's working in
case it helps you help me fix my bug at all):
Tarball: http://cakephp.bytenoise.co.uk/simple-blog-example.tbz
SQL:
Hi again gang!
I stumbled upon a neat article about using HTML button elements, as
opposed to input elements that happen to be buttons:
http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/
I think it'd be really neat to get the form helper to generate these.
However, when I try
You'd have to patch HTMLHelper yourself. It currently does not have
any capability to output a button tag. To it, 'button' means an input
with type = 'button'. This should be changed, IMHO.
Ah, thank you. At least I know now, thanks.
Zoe.
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Hi.
I'm probably missing something simple here, but a few weeks ago, my
Cake app seemed to spontaneously start outputting the hex values EF
BB BF at the beginning of all its pages. Static files such as CSS
files, and non-Cake PHP files in /app/webroot, don't do this. It's
just files generated
I have seen this happen when one file (in my case a jpGraph file) had
a been saved with the file encoding BOM in it, when If found the file
and resaved it without it, all was good. It actually made the jpegs
that were generated to be corrupt.
Yes, I saw something along those lines mentioned
my guess is that it is a helper or a view that is used by that page(s)
something that someone edited using a different texteditor like
homeSite
Ah, but I downloaded the homepage for the site using curl and it has
the same prefix, so it's not just for XLS generation - that's just the
one that
Cake isn't adding the bytes, your editor probably is.
That makes sense, but if Cake's always outputting them, and other PHP
scripts in /app/webroot aren't, then which file's likely to have the
three bytes? I'm not up on Cake enough to know which files are always
being output. I've checked the
Hi.
I'm setting up some attributes that are arrays in inherited classes.
For example, in /app/app_model.php I have the $validate rules that
apply to some columns which appear in every table. Similarly, in /app/
app_controller.php I have some universal $paginate settings such as
the limit.
Now
Hi again!
I'm discovering the joys of moving a lot of things from individual
controllers to the app_controller. This means I need to be able to
work out the controller name and model name for whatever happens to be
inheriting it at any given time. This is how I'm doing it:
$controllerName =
Thanks for the help! I've looked at the source code again, trying to
understand why what you're doing is working, and it's starting to make
a bit more sense to me now. Judging by this:
http://api.cakephp.org/1.2/libs_2controller_2controller_8php-source.html#l00970
...it appears that the
Try something like this:
$stories = $this-Story-findAll(array('complete' = 0), null, null,
null, null, -1);
foreach ($stories as $story) {
$comments = $this-Story-Comment-findAll(array('story_id' =
$story['Story']['id']), 'content', 'created_at DESC',
$story['viewablecomments'], null, -1);
The 'allowEmpty' key should be assigned a boolean value.
Ah, thank you. That makes sense. So I've replaced this:
var $validate = array(
'name' = array(
'required' = VALID_NOT_EMPTY
)
);
With this now:
var $validate = array(
'name' = array(
array(
I want to return only a number of comments (that is defined in
visiblecomments) in every story.
This seems like an odd way of doing it, as you'd be able to specify
how many comments to retrieve, but not which ones... but yes, it's
certainly possible.
In your story controller, if your use of
Hi im newbie and my English still sucks, but i want to know get the
controller name since an element view. Thanks.
Try echoing out $this-params['controller'] - is that what you're
after?
Hope that helps,
Zoe.
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also, in regards to the second error, make sure in your model-validate
array, that you have apostrophes around the words 'VALID_NOT_EMPTY', which
should clear out that error.
Will it? I thought VALID_NOT_EMPTY *was* a constant, not a literal
string.
I've also heard on someone's blog that
The code i have creates my user and puts it into the database just
fine..but after that, nothing happens... no flash, no redirect.
Have you made a login() function in /app/controllers/
users_controller.php? It looks like you've got the creation of new
users sorted, but you now need to let them
Hi!
To be honest, rendering pages quickly is not the advantage of CakePHP.
Any site you've made by hand is inherently going to be faster than one
that's having to check, say, what columns are in the database's tables
each time you pull something out of them.
The reason it's still very much
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I'm never sure whether I'm doing things the right way. To be
honest, all this MVC stuff was brand new to me by the time I started. This
is why I've been hesitant to submit articles to the bakery, for example.
Since a lot of my stuff, can be
By the way, I am Japanese. I think Japanese developers want to read
documents in Japanese. So I want to translate your guide into Japanese.
Can I do that?
The way I understand the hacker spirit, everybody's free to share and
build upon everyone else's work, which is what makes free software
I created a symlink from MAMP htdocs to my dev web folder.
I'm not sure but I think I might have a mod_rewrite issue, maybe due to
that MAMP htdocs symlink or apache default config ?
There's a good chance that using a symlink instead of actually
changing httpd.conf's DocumentRoot is causing
Hi!
Just to let you all know, I've finally written enough of the CakePHP
guide that I'm working on to warrant putting it online at last. It's
available here:
http://cakephp.bytenoise.co.uk/
It's only the first three chapters so far, but hopefully I should have
a lot more there over the next
i would like to do the following. i have a table, lets call it
softwaretype. in this table i want to store main classes (e.g.
Internet software), but also subclasses (e.g. Internet Browsers, Mail,
FTP...). i add an parent_id field which stores the id of the
parent. if the type is a main
It's work but I'd like that when the first rule is not satisfied it
don't try to check the second rule.
Swap the order of the two rules in the model. It checks that they're
satisfied in reverse order.
Now it check first rule (if blank it set required), so it check
second rule and it
Thanks for the links everyone! To answer my own first question, then:
1. How can I tell if someone's requesting the RSS version of a page or
the regular HTML version? At the moment, I've got this in my
controller:
if ($this-RequestHandler-__renderType == 'rss')
I've replaced that with
If you are following the example given by Nate, I think your problem might
be that you're trying to access the helpers inside the callback function,
and they are out of the scope there.
You should truncate the data before passing it to the RSS function or see
how to pass the helper as a
In my admin area I want to show the following data:
name, created, 1st Login, Last Login
Hiya!
This is probably one of those rare instances where a big ol' SQL query
would probably be easier than doing it at a higher level with CakePHP.
Something like this in the users' model might help:
This should be relatively fast if your indexes are set up correctly.
That's a very good point. If you haven't indexed the table, try this:
ALTER TABLE login_logs ADD INDEX (created)
For the benefit of anyone who hasn't discovered the joys of indexing
yet, this essentially makes an
I'm no expert, but this might help:
CakePHP's model validation treats later rules with a higher priority
than earlier ones. This means that if neither rule is matched, it's
the last rule's message that will show. I'm not sure why it works this
way, but that's what seems to happen.
So for
Hi again!
I'm trying to set up some RSS feeds using CakePHP. I'm very impressed
at how easy and automated this process is, it's great! After a lot of
searching, this backup of someone explaining how they did it was a
great help:
How would you get the enum values from the model or controller?
By far the easiest way is to go to
http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippetid=112
and copy and paste the code that's there into app_model.php, then you
can just use lines like the following in your code:
$types =
Just noticed that this only happens if i do a :
$form-text('test');
rather than:
input id=test type=text value= name=data[test]/
anyone know why?
Usually any bug to do with just the first character of a string is a
sign that the string's being treated as an array. For example, echoing
While I agree that it's a scary place to work for that doesn't see the
benefits of following standards and using frameworks, here's how I'd
word it: using CakePHP lets you do make the same site in far less time
(at least, it does once you're used to it, maybe for the third project
onwards). It's
Hi!
I'm trying to run another controller's unrelated method from within
the method of the page being accessed, in the hope I might be able to
get all the variables it's setting to avoid code duplication. It looks
like requestAction can do this very thing, but I can't seem to get it
to output
Also, make sure that your method ends with:
return($datayouwanttoreturn);
Thank you! This is what I was missing. I'm so used to CakePHP being
magical that I assumed it'd to something amazing like return the $this-
set variables automatically. Now that I've ended the method being
called with
I can't be alone in
wondering what the most efficient way to get into CakePHP is.
Good guides seem to be the main thing missing from CakePHP - there are
plenty of tips about how to do one or two specific things at a time,
but not much in the way of a beginner's guide that gives you a good
Hi again!
I thought it might be a good idea to move various commonly used
controller methods into app_controller.php, to handle normal CRUD
duties and only be overridden for special occasions. For example, I've
now replaced the following method that was in all my controllers, such
as the one for
Thank you very much, both of you. This is exactly what I was looking
for!
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Hi.
Thanks for your help before, everyone... This one's just a quick
question. I'm pretty sure the answer's just make the new model and
stop being lazy, but I'd like to make sure just in case.
I've got a project with a has-and-belongs-to-many relationship,
linking a products table to a features
Hi.
I'm trying to override CakePHP's deleting of rows in the database
so it only looks like it's deleting them. So far I've done the
following:
* Updated all the tables except cake_sessions to include the column
`deleted` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0'
* Created the file
Hi.
Sorry for all these questions. If it's any consolation, I'm putting
together a brief guide for making forms in CakePHP with the form
helper, which is one of the reasons I want to make sure I'm doing
things the right way.
Anyway, my question is about how I should add the option of none of
function select($fieldName, $options = array(), $selected = null,
$attributes = array(), $showEmpty = '')
Isn't that clear? :D
Maybe I don't know PHP well enough, but it's not very clear to me...
Would setting $showEmpty to a non-false value do the same thing as
setting one of the $options
CakePHP doesn't really support enumthis is because some of the DBs
that cakephp was made to work with do not support it.
Instead use: tinyint(1)
Then the cake checkboxes will work auto-magically!
Ah, so the problem is that MySQL doesn't support boolean data types
yet, and CakePHP is
Hi again!
I'm trying to use the FormHelper to make checkboxes for simple enum
data in my database. The values in the database are always stored as
'yes' or 'no'.
I can get the form to work just fine using dropdown select elements,
but I can't get it to work with checkboxes. The boxes are always
Please disregard my previous post. For future reference, the fix is to
specify the foreign key in the model for the table that links to it,
like this:
class Timesheet extends AppModel {
var $belongsTo = array(
'Employee' = array ('className' = 'Employee',
'foreignKey' =
Hi.
I'd really appreciate it if anyone here could help me out. I'm trying
to override CakePHP's table names using useTable, which is causing it
to get a bit confused when it comes to linking the tables together.
I've got a table called people which is being used by two models,
Customer and
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