100 tables, ouch .. yeah sounds like your going to have to leave it as it is, but as others are saying it should work with a little extra configuration. Good luck and get back to us with how you find it.
@phpMagpie On Sep 6, 2:10 am, Greg Skerman <[email protected]> wrote: > I told you how to do it :) its not impossible, you just risk it becoming an > unmaintainable mess. > > There are many tables I use which come from other systems/are static dumps > of tables out of systems i need to use as reference data but don't want to > muck up the table definitions etc - and I routinely tell cake "this is this, > that is that"...and all is good.... > > Its just something that needs to be dealt with carefully - if you have > hundreds of tables and nothing else depends on them, and you have the > time/budget to do it, it may be worth altering the tables to be more cake > friendly....but if not, just configure your models and document everything > carefully so the next developer who has to come along knows what it is > you've done to make it work. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Cruisine <[email protected]> wrote: > > to be honest,i don't really want this happen.but what am i supposed to > > do?i cant build new database since the current database have lots of > > datas inside. after i read ur reply i started to think like that as > > well.my work will be hard later. i have to define lots of things on > > the model and i don't have an idea about the unpreddicted issues which > > will follow later. > > > do you have any idea to solve this problem? > > > On Sep 5, 10:39 am, Greg Skerman <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://book.cakephp.org/view/1057/Model-Attributesisa good place to > > start. > > > > you can configure in most circumstances cake to talk to any old database > > - > > > you just end up losing some of the magic and writing more code as a > > result. > > > > for a model which does not comply with the convention you will at least > > need > > > to: > > > > 1) define the table name ($useTable) > > > 2) define the primary key ($primaryKey) > > > 3) define the display name ($displayName) > > > > you'll also need to provide more verbose settings in the model > > associations > > > in order to get them to play nice... > > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Cruisine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > hi guys, i need to know something important about naming convention. > > > > yeah, i've been using naming convention while developing all my app > > > > all the time. but recently a problem appeared. let say i've got a > > > > project to re-developing an app ( from non-cakephp to cakephp) which > > > > already had a database. and of course since the app hadn't been built > > > > by cakephp the database also didn't follow the cakephp naming > > > > convention rules. > > > > the question i have is, how do i make an application using cakephp > > > > with that database?is it still possible to built a cakephp project > > > > without following naming convention rules? > > > > > need ur help soon.thank you. > > > > > -- > > > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > > > >http://tv.cakephp.org > > > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organdhelp > > > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected] For more options, visit this > > group > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > > -- > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > >http://tv.cakephp.org > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
