Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer! And, let me apologize for the delay, I was in a rural area where the Internet costs per byte. I wasn't really looking at any particular class, just reading the documentation to learn about the cakephp framework. What you tell me is a bit disappointing. It would make it a lot easier if somewhere in the docs it said parentNode() (for example) must be implemented. And, also if the options that can be passed to array parameters were documented. In the end, I feel I'll have to look for tutorials to see what options are available, and ask questions making me and you guys lose time.
On Sep 13, 2:43 am, cricket <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, laduree <[email protected]> wrote: > > I posted this > > athttp://www.cakephpforum.net/index.php?showtopic=2269&st=0&#entry7412 > > but it seems there's not much movement in the forum and that people > > have not been getting replies for a couple of days. Here it goes my > > concern with CakePHP: > > > I have just started working with CakePHP and love how it speeds up > > development. The blog tutorial was a piece of cake. However, I am > > having trouble understanding the Acl controlled application tutorial. > > I can't find parentNode() in the documentation, and how it is all > > implemented by CakePHP seems somewhat obscure. > > parentNode() is a method that your model must implement. Think of it > in terms of Java interfaces. The idea is that, when Cake's ACL code > calls YourModel::parentNode() it should get back an array with both > the model name and the ID for the object that is the parent of the > present one. Here's an example from one of my apps. Note the format of > the returned array, and the null should be returned where there is no > parent. > > public function parentNode() > { > if (!$this->id) return null; > > $parent_id = $this->field( > 'parent_id', > array('Section.id' => $this->id) > ); > > return $parent_id > ? array( > 'model' => 'Section', > 'foreign_key' => $parent_id > ) > : null; > > } > > This is a very general implementation. There may be circumstances > where a little more code is required. > > > Other thing I've noticed is that many of the methods have an "options" > > parameter that takes an array, but, how does one know what options are > > available to include in the array? For example, for the AclBehavior > > setup() method in the parameters section it just says: > > > mixed $config optional array ( ) > > > So, what are the configuration options available to me, where do I > > find them in the docs, how do I know how to use all these great > > functionality???? > > Yes, the docs are sorely lacking in specifics on $options but some of > them are listed in the API:http://api.cakephp.org/ > > Which methods did you have in mind? 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
