Any suggestions why it is not possible to join strings in a model
file:
$foo = 'A'.'B';
this produces error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION
in .\app\models\event.php on line 7
A real life scenario:
I have a model Event that has a self reference and is called under
different aliases (Event, PreviousEvent, NextEvent).
I need a virtual name for that model as an extract from the event
description
this works:
public $virtualFields = array('name' => 'LEFT(description, 40)');
but since model is called under different aliases in one request I get
warning:
Column 'description' in field list is ambiguous
I thought this would work:
public $virtualFields = array('name' => 'LEFT('. $this-
>name .'.description, 40)');
but then I discovered that joining strings in model does not work at
all.
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