thanks again Dardo,
I got the date working, although I also had to add the 'minYear' also
or else we only have very young students ;)
Also got the search function to work with only a little tinkering.
Took me a while to realise that I needed to change the form to: '<?php
echo $form->create('Student', array('action' => 'search')); ?>'
but that was straight forward. I also needed to change the flash
message to $this->Flash('Student not found','/students/search');
Am I correct in assuming that I will need to put in different search
functions for each type of search I want to do. Eg. studentsearch,
coursesearch? Where coursesearch returns all the students doing the
course (I would also need a different view function also, or could I
just manipulate my viewall function, because that is how I would like
it presented).
Now I'm really getting somewhere! Albeit with my hand held :)
On Mar 23, 5:16 pm, "Dardo Sordi Bogado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:00 AM, damo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Dardo, I have taken your advise and added the additional
> > field. It all seems to work great now, I'm suprised with how quickly
> > things come together even on my first attempt. So now I have an add,
> > edit, delete, view functions. All of this is based of the tutorial
> > and I am very pleased with my progress but I am quickly realising how
> > much more there is to it!!
>
> You are wecome, I'm glad you are making progress, cake is so powerful.
>
> > A couple of more questions:
> > I have a 'date' field which is for Date of Birth. In the addformas
> > it is it lists dates from 1988 to 2028. I obviously don't need future
> > dates for this, so how can I change this so that the latest date is
> > today (or some arbitrary recent date), and it's earliest date is back
> > x amount of years.
>
> $form->input('mydatefield', array('maxYear' => 2008));
>
> > Second, I would like to put together a very simple search function
> > preferably based upon the tutorial (because I understand that). I
> > haven't been able to find anything particularly easy to implement in
> > my reading so far. All I really want to do is search for the
> > 'student_number' and then 'view' that record, failing that echo
> > 'student doesn't exist', or something like that.
>
> This may work,
>
> in your controller :
>
> function search() {
>
> if (!empty($this->data)) {
> $number = $this->data['Student']['student_number'];
> $student = $this->Student->findByStudentNumber($number);
> // or : $student =
> $this->Student->find(array('Student.student_number' => $number));
>
> if ( $student) {
> $this->redirect(array('action' => 'view', $student['Student']['id']));
> } else {
> $this->Session->setFlash('Student not found');
> }
>
> }
> > On Mar 22, 7:04 pm, "Dardo Sordi Bogado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Cake automagically sets primary keys fields as hidden, you can
> > > override the default behavior:
>
> > > echo $form->input('id', array('label' => 'Student Number: ', 'type' =>
> > 'text'));
>
> > > Maybe is better, just to add a new field called student_number and
> > > make it an sql unique index and let the ids alones.
>
> > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:41 AM, damo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm sure this is ridiculously simple to resolve, but the below seems
> > > > to work perfectly:
>
> > > > <h1>Add Student Record</h1>
>
> > > > <?php echo $form->create('Student'); ?>
>
> > > > <?php
> > > > echo $form->input('id', array('label' => 'Student Number: '));
> > > > echo $form->input('studentname', array('label' => 'Student
> > > > Name: '));
> > > > echo $form->input('studentdob', array('label' => 'Student Date
> > > > of Birth: '));
> > > > echo $form->input('course', array('label' => 'Current Course:
> > > > '));
> > > > ?>
>
> > > > <?php echo $form->end('Insert'); ?>
>
> > > > except that the id component of theformdoesn't display at all....
> > > > When I insert the record, everything goes in correctly, except
> > > > obviously the the 'id'. The 'id' is set as the primary key for the
> > > > table, although I have toggled this. Also, I would have preferred to
> > > > have the 'id' labelled something like 'studentnumber', but the view
> > > > option wouldn't work when I had it setup this way.
>
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > > Damo
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