i even use a helper funtion

echo $common->yesNo($val)

which results in one of 2 icons: green check mark or a red cross
(even more pleasing visual appearance)


On 9 Okt., 15:00, FrederickD <[email protected]> wrote:
> I may not understand completely what you are trying to do. I've kept
> my boolean elements at tinyint and use something like this with the
> views for presentation:
>
> <td class="confirmed"><?php echo $user['User']['confirmed']  ? 'Yes' :
> 'No'; ?></td>
>
> That give a more pleasing visual appearance than a '1' or '0', yet
> maintains the database value as boolean.
>
> There is something similar that can be done in Javascript for ExtJS
> grids and forms.
>
> Does this help?
>
> On Oct 8, 6:36 pm, Xhaphir <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > i have a small problem in cakePHP. I saved a lot of booleans and
> > integers in a mySQL Database and
> > cakePHP is converting my boolean values nicely to a tinyint. But not
> > back.
>
> > In most cases this is not a problem but I would like to iterate over
> > all values and convert all booleans to "yes"/"no".
> > In this case I am unable to determine if a value is a boolean or an
> > integer.
>
> > Maybe I'm just don't see the solution..
>
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Helmut
>
>
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