That did the trick. Small correction: _getActiveStatus worked for me in the
Entity class, _activeStatus didn't display anything.
Thank you!
-joe
On Monday, 22 September 2014 04:42:23 UTC-4, José Lorenzo wrote:
>
> Don't use accessors for formatting your columns to be displayed in the
> view. The accessors are meant to get the data as it should be saved in the
> database. You can use instead a virtual field such as active_status:
>
> protected function _activeStatus() {
> return $this->active ? 'Active' : 'Inactive';
> }
>
> echo $entity->active_status;
>
> On Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:45:33 PM UTC+2, Joe Theuerkauf wrote:
>>
>> i have several tables with an `active` column, and the Admin should be
>> able to de/activate records to determine whether they & related records are
>> available in the application.
>>
>> Instead of constantly converting T/F or 1/0 to "Active"/"Inactive", i
>> wrote an Entity getter:
>>
>> protected function _getActive($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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