I had posted something similar to this to the cakephp-core group a week or so ago, but I think it got swallowed up, so here goes.
I do a bit of work with CakePHP and legacy PHP projects. A part of the fun with that is working in legacy table names that don't work well with the CakePHP convention. For the most part, CakePHP handles this just fine, with the usage of Model::useTable and Model::primaryKey. However, generating fixtures isn't quite up to scratch. The bake shell for fixtures will only look at the table in the datasource to determine the name of the model and the fixture. If my table name is an inappropriate comp_patient, and I've created a model called Patient, I'd like to be able to generate a fixture for Patient from the bake command, rather than have to generate a CompPatient fixture, and manually rename and update the class name. I've started work a on plugin that will allow generation of fixtures, based on the models you already have generated in your Model directory, rather than the datasource. The basics appear to work, but I need to generate the unit tests before it gets released to the general public. What I'd really like to do is modify the core, as a contribution, and have the bake shell recognise if a generated model uses a table in the table list, then it should use the name of that model to generate the fixture, rather than the model name that would normally be generated from the table name. I'm hoping this gets the attention of a CakePHP core developer or two. Would this be a welcome addition to the core, or should I just stick with my plugin? Regards Reuben Helms -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en.
