Oh, PS - I modified the hack so that it only runs when it recognizes
an XML type from SQL 2005. If you change my
$fieldDescription[$fields[$i]]['type'] == 'xml' to
$fieldDescription[$fields[$i]]['type'] == 'text', it should work for
ntext fields in general.
- James
On Jul 10, 12:34 pm, James K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The official word from the CakePHP team is that "CakePHP does not
> support ntext fields". You're stuck using the text casting hack. I'm
> using MS SQL myself, and have had to use it, unfortunately.
>
> I'm using 1.2 RC2 and have successfully gotten that same hack to work
> - you have to change it a bit to work with the changes introduced in
> RC1. Here's my version of the fields function from RC2:
>
> function fields(&$model, $alias = null, $fields = array(), $quote =
> true) {
> if (empty($alias)) {
> $alias = $model->alias;
> }
> $fields = parent::fields($model, $alias, $fields, false);
> $count = count($fields);
>
> $fieldDescription = $this->describe($model);
>
> if ($count >= 1 && $fields[0] != '*' && strpos($fields[0],
> 'COUNT(*)') === false) {
> for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
> $prepend = '';
>
> if (strpos($fields[$i], 'DISTINCT') !==
> false) {
> $prepend = 'DISTINCT ';
> $fields[$i] =
> trim(str_replace('DISTINCT', '', $fields[$i]));
> }
> $fieldAlias = count($this->__fieldMappings);
>
> if (!preg_match('/\s+AS\s+/i', $fields[$i])) {
> if (strpos($fields[$i], '.') ===
> false) {
> $this->__fieldMappings[$alias
> . '__' . $fieldAlias] = $alias .
> '.' . $fields[$i];
> if
> ($fieldDescription[$fields[$i]]['type'] == 'xml') {
> $fieldName =
> "CAST(CAST(".$this->name($alias . '.' .
> $fields[$i])." AS VARCHAR(8000)) AS TEXT)";
> } else {
> $fieldName =
> $this->name($alias . '.' . $fields[$i]);
> }
> $fieldAlias =
> $this->name($alias . '__' . $fieldAlias);
> } else {
> $build = explode('.',
> $fields[$i]);
>
> $this->__fieldMappings[$build[0] . '__' . $fieldAlias] =
> $fields[$i];
> $fieldName =
> $this->name($build[0] . '.' . $build[1]);
> $fieldAlias =
> $this->name(preg_replace("/^\[(.+)\]$/", "$1",
> $build[0]) . '__' . $fieldAlias);
> }
> if
> ($model->getColumnType($fields[$i]) == 'datetime') {
> $fieldName =
> "CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), {$fieldName}, 20)";
> }
> $fields[$i] = "{$fieldName} AS
> {$fieldAlias}";
> }
> $fields[$i] = $prepend . $fields[$i];
> }
> }
> return $fields;
> }
>
> On Jul 10, 9:59 am, bitkidoku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I have a problem using my existing MSSQL DB. I get the following
> > error:
> > "SQL Error: Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation or ntext data
> > cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC
> > version 3.7 or earlier. [CORE\cake\libs\model\datasources
> > \dbo_source.php, line 512]"
>
> > I encountered this error before while writing my own PHP code. It can
> > be 'solved' casting ntext field to text. The closest solution for
> > CakePHP I found is this:https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/4287
>
> > But since that applies to 1.2.0.6311 I couldn't make it work at the
> > moment.
>
> > Does anyone have any idea resolving this issue?
> > Thanks in advance :)
>
> > PS: Why do I insist on using MSSQL? Well, that is another story... I
> > am not very happy about that but I have to.
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