On Nov 3, 9:32 am, Enno Weichert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to integrate a very bad legacy database where field names are
> named inconsistently (like contact, Kontakt, contactID, contact_id,
> KontaktID etc.) or even randomly ("ext" is in fact a group_id field in
> one table).
> I would have to reflect all that in the models so I'd not have to use
> that crap anymore.
> So: how many of the fied references in your code are hard-coded? What
> obstacles will I see? How much can I configure and still play cakephp?
>
> Thanks,
> Enno

why don't you just create a view (assuming you can't edit the actual
tables).

I.e. CREATE OR REPLACE· v_tablename AS as SELECT  funky AS id, ext AS
group_id .... FROM optionalotherdatabase.tablename

and use that instead of the real table. If you create simple views (no
joins, basically) you can also update them.

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