On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:32 AM, damo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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 ;)
You are welcome.
> 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');
Nice.
> 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).
That depends of your style, but in general I think is a good practice
to put those search separated (I'm talking without having seen your
code).
> Now I'm really getting somewhere! Albeit with my hand held :)
I'm happy you are right on track, enjoy CakePHP!
>
>
> 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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