Paul,
Adding some more information - I just found the first part of the
problem from the stack trace. When I invoke the /partners/search.json
URL, the search() function is not getting any data, so it just runs to
the first part of the IF statement and performs $this->render();
(which is why I get the undefined variable: partner (or partners)!!
So, I guess my question now is how to get the search result data to
output in JSON!!??
function search() {
if(empty($this->data)) {
$this->render();
} else {
$search_term=$this->data['Partner']['q'];
$conditions = array("partner_name LIKE" => "%
{$search_term}%");
$partners=$this->Partner->find('all',
array('conditions' => $conditions));
//var_dump($partners);
$this->Partner->recursive = -1;
$this->set('partners', $this->paginate());
$this->set('partners', $partners);
//$this->render("index");
}
}
On Sep 16, 1:48 pm, steveo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> First off, I'm *very* new to CakePHP and not much of a PHP programmer
> (more of a hack than anything!). I'm still grasping the whole MVC
> architecture paradigm, so the plural/singular thing is still settling
> in.
>
> Basically, I created a CRUD interface from the CakePHP console to a
> MySQL database, which worked perfectly! I then tried implementing the
> CakeDC search plugin, but was completely frustrated with it and could
> never get it to function (real-life examples are hard to find on it
> and the blog example just didn't have enough detail for customizing
> for my application).
>
> Anyhow, the main part of the app consists of a partners controller
> -http://mydomain.com/partners- which basically lists all partners in a
> paginated view (there are about 3000 partners). I wanted a search
> interface because paging through 3000 records to find the one you want
> to edit would just not be possible.
>
> I implemented the search, as described earlier in this thread, and it
> has worked fine (although probably not implemented completely
> cleanly). I wanted to just have the search post back to itself, which
> I couldn't figure out, so I created a search template which is pretty
> much a copy of the partners template.
>
> So,http://mydomain.com/partnerslists partners fine. Performing a
> search posts tohttp://mydomain.com/partners/searchand shows an
> appropriate search result. All good.
>
> I need to implement ReST now and have some endpoints which return JSON
> (or XML) formatted results. Continuing on...
>
> http://mydomain.com/partners.json(and /partners.xml) both output
> expected results (although it is quite meaningless since it is just
> the first 10 records). My index.ctp for the JSON output has just one
> line of code: <?php echo json_encode($partners); ?> (notice the
> plural, which works).
>
> My dilemma now is the search output:
>
> http://mydomain.com/search.jsongives the error Undefined variable:
> partners (/views\/partners\/json\/search.ctp). The line of code in
> this template is: <?php echo json_encode($partners); ?> (which works
> just fine for /partners.json). If I change it to <?php echo
> json_encode($partner); ?> (singular) is get the same error message,
> just Undefined variable: partner (now singular). So as you can see
> regardless of singular/plural in the search JSON output, I still get
> an error!
>
> <steve>
>
> On Sep 16, 5:22 am, WebbedIT <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Take JSON out of the equation and simply check to see if the model->find()
> > call is returning anything
>
> > echo debug($this->paginate());
>
> > Although from your post above it seems the problem is that you passing
> > partners (plural) to the view and echoing partner (singlular) in the
> > view.
>
> > Why are you linking what happens with index and view to what happens
> > in search? They should all be different actions with different views?
>
> > HTH, Paul
> > @phpMagpie
>
> > P.S. I can highly reccomend CakeDC's search plugin
>
> > On Sep 15, 2:51 pm, steveo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hey folks! I'm fairly new to CakePHP, but so far I love it! I had some
> > > troubles getting a search interface to work against my database, but
> > > after googling around I was finally able to put the pieces together
> > > and get it to work. I am not in the process of enabling REST
> > > interfaces and outputting in JSON/XML. I have everything working just
> > > fine in my index and view templates (where I can just add .json
> > > or .xml to the end of the URL and get the correct output. However, I
> > > am not able to get JSON/XML output from a search! It looks like my
> > > array is empty and I'm not sure how to pass the data over.
>
> > > I have the following code in my main controller:
>
> > > function search() {
> > > if(empty($this->data)) {
> > > $this->render();
> > > } else {
>
> > > $search_term=$this->data['Partner']['q'];
> > > $conditions = array("partner_name LIKE" => "%
> > > {$search_term}%");
> > > $partners=$this->Partner->find('all',
> > > array('conditions' => $conditions));
> > > //var_dump($partners);
> > > $this->Partner->recursive = -1;
> > > $this->set('partners', $this->paginate());
> > > $this->set('partners', $partners);
> > > $this->render("index");
> > > }
> > > }
>
> > > Like I said, it works perfectly fine for the index and view, but not
> > > for search. Instead, I get the following error:
>
> > > Undefined variable: partner [APP/views/layouts/json/default.ctp, line
> > > 1]null
>
> > > Now, the tricky part. The json/default.ctp works for index and view,
> > > so if I change the variable to "partners", it will no longer work for
> > > index and view (in addition, changing to "partners" will not work for
> > > the json/xml output either). Since I am seeing "null" in the error
> > > message, I'm assuming that the partners variable is not getting passed
> > > to the search (or default) template. Anyone think they can help me?
> > > Thanks!!!
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