i have several tables with an `active` column, and the Admin should be able
to de/activate records to determine whether they & related records are
available in the application.
Instead of constantly converting T/F or 1/0 to "Active"/"Inactive", i wrote
an Entity getter:
protected function _getActive($active) {
return $active ? 'Active' : 'Inactive';
}
That's been working pretty well. The Entity->active property always
provides the string.
The problem is updating the data:
SomeTableController gets a request like */some_table/active/2/1* to set ID
2 "active" (1):
public function active($id, $active) {
$entity = $this->SomeTable->get($id);
$entity->active = $active;
if ($this->SomeTable->save($entity)) {
// Success!
}
else {
// Fail!
}
}
The problem: save() reports a successful save, but the database isn't
updated. Scratch that: the `modified` column is updated, but not the
`active` flag.
If i kill _getActive() the update works, but i lose the convenience of the
string representation.
My *guess* is, i need a setter to handle the switch, but i'm not sure
exactly how they work. The documentation
(http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/entities.html#Cake\ORM\Entity::set) for
set mutators shows an example of setting some *other* entity property
('slug') using the 'title' property. But there's no example for mutating
the property being called, and i don't know if that even makes sense...
Along with no _setActive mutator, i also tried the following:
protected function _setActive($active) {
// $this->set('active', $active); <-- Created loop condition & fatal
error.
$this->_properties['active'] = $active;
return $active;
}
No luck. It does the same as no setter: updates the entity (with updated
active & modified properties), but save() doesn't write the changed active
property to the database.
Any help? Thanks.
-joe t.
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