Hi everybody I'm trying to create useful web tests for an application I didn't develop (I certainly would have done it in Rails, not in CakePHP ;-) ), and I'm quite frustrated with the possibilities that CakePHP's simple integration of SimpleTest offers me...
What I want is to write a test that creates (let's say) an article, then displays and removes it. The problem here is that I don't know what ID a newly created article has. So I have to find ways how to overcome that. I read somewhere a solution that reads the whole page and scans for available ID's, but that seems rather clumsy to me. As far as I know CakePHP's web testing doesn't offer the use of fixtures, so I also can't just remove one of them to test removal of an article. So I got the following idea... If I could specify the ID of a newly created article, I would know it from the beginning and could remove it without any problem. But how could that be achieved? I could just offer a text input field in every form! But for every normal and *not* testing use this would be quite strange, so it would be nice if I could only display the field in testing mode. So... 1) Do you think this is a good idea? 2) Is there a way to check whether the website is rendered in testing mode? 3) Is there a better solution (maybe I'm wrong and there really *are* fixtures available in web testing?)? Thanks a lot for your thoughts and hints.. Josh Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
