cakephp

How best to convert CakePHP date picker form data to a PHP DateTime object?

I'm doing this in app/views/mymodel/add.ctp: <?php echo $form->input('Mymodel.mydatefield'); ?> And then, in app/controllers/mymodel_controller.php: function add() { # ... (if we have some submitted data) $datestring = $this->data['Mymodel']['mydatefield']['year'] . '-' . $this->data['Mymodel']['mydatefield'...

Form with file filed in CakePHP

How get name of field type file in beforeSave()? I have form with many file filed, and i must get names of each... ...

CakePHP - radio button not showing error message

Hi, I'm unable to get the error message to show up when creating a radio form using the CakePHP form helper. This is what I have now. $options=array('active'=>'Active','inactive'=>'Inactive'); echo $form->input('Status', array( 'type' => 'radio', 'id' => 'EntryStatus', 'name' => 'data[Entry][status]', 'options' => $o...

Cakephp with OpenID and User Authentication

I have a table "users" and I want to enable my visitors to login with their openID Account. For this I use the OpenId Component for Cakephp and it works fine (When I login with the Google URL I receive the "successfully authenticated!" notification). But now I'm kind of stuck because I don't know how to go on from there. Do I have to...

How to set multiple cakephp projects on local computer?

Hi, I am new to Cakephp, and very excited to learn it. I read the docs, downloaded the files, place it on my www root folder. (I am using WAMP). My question is, can I download 1 cakephp and do for multiple projects, for example I put my cakephp at %webroot%, so my to call my projects: [http://localhost/cake/project1] [http://localhos...

CakePHP how to make webroot/js be writable

Creating a cache file with writeBuffer() requires that webroot/js be world writable and allows a browser to cache generated script resources for any page. how to make webroot/js be writable and allows a browser ..... ...

cakephp not saving update value to related table, but no errors

Update order function finds all orderlines of current order. Loops through subtracting quantity ordered from stock level and holding new stock level value in $newstock. All good. But won't save. Echoes "success" and the correct value but the database is not updated. The Order status field does update, with the same code syntax. It also ...

Error after redirection using CakePHP

I have created some code called LoginController. Whenever Admin gets successfully logged in I redirect the page to index. However, I got an error like "problem on loading page". This is my code: <?php class LoginController extends AdminAppController { var $name = 'Login'; var $uses = array('Admin.Login'); var $sessionkey= ''; /*functi...

Cakephp 1.3, Weird behavior on firefox when using $this->Html->link ...

Greetings, I am getting a very weird and unpredictable result in firefox when using the following syntax: $this->Html->link($this->Html->div('p-cpt',$project['Project']['name']) . $this->Html->div('p-img',$this->Html->image('/img/projects/'.$project['Project']['slug'].'/project.thumb.jpg', array('alt'=>$project['Project']['name'],'wi...

PHP array manipulation

I have the code below . it looks for the case and creates an array of rows and columns. $pv->results[$row1][1][0] actually is $pv->result->[rownumber][coulmnnumber][0]. Now this is for only 2 columns as you can see. However I want an array like $myArr = array(0=>1, 1=>7, 2=>8, 3=>9 ) to be added below for column. What it is doing, ...

How to nest joins with CakePHP?

I'm trying to behave. So, instead of using following SQL syntax: select * from tableA INNER JOIN tableB on tableA.id = tableB.tableA_id LEFT OUTER JOIN ( tableC INNER JOIN tableD on tableC.tableD_id = tableD.id) on tableC.tableA_id = tableA.id I'd like to use the CakePHP model->find(). This will let me use the P...

Database agnostic virtual fields in CakePHP

In CakePHP 1.3 there is a feature for virtual fields but it's coupled with the database that you are using. For example: var $virtualFields = array( 'full_name' => 'CONCAT(User.first_name, " ", User.last_name)' ); This would work for MySQL but not for MS SqlServer. Is there a way to make this database agnostic? I'm still in the mi...

php foreach question

I have the following code $oldID=-1; $column=0; foreach($pv->rawData as $data) { if ($oldID!= $data->relativeTypeID) { $oldID= $data->relativeTypeID; $column++; $row=1; } echo "Row: ".$row.": Column: ".$column.": ID".$data->relativeTypeID."<br>"; // if exists a description if($data->descr...

Installing CakePHP on Windows with Apache

Hi, I'm trying to install CakePHP on my Windows XP machine running Apache 2.2. I have installed the Cake folder in my doc root. I've read the installation instructions that say to include this line in the httpd.conf file; <Directory /path/to/cake> Does anyone know how to translate that into Windows? I currently have the following in ...

Tables relationship in Cakephp

Hi all, I am new to Models structure in Cakephp. A few weeks ago I came across a tutorial in which the author got three tables in Database: Table A: {ID, Description, IsActive} Table B: {ID, TableA_ID, Description, CreationDate, ModifiedDate} Table A_B: {ID, TableA_ID, TableB_ID} The author of the tutorial said that the third table ...

Cakephp database migration error

Hello All, I am using Ubuntu + cakephp 1.3. I am trying the database migration with the help of cakeDC migration plugin. I configured the plugin as per the instructions. But when i goes to the terminal, goes to the path of the application application_path/app/ dir then fire a command 'cake migration help' it gives me following error, ...

Cakephp 1.3 database migration with

Hello All, I am using cakephp 1.3 on LAMP (ubuntu 9.04) platform. Trying the database migration with cakephp inbuilt schema generation script. I am inside the app folder & When i fire a command in the terminal 'cake schema run create schema file name', It is giving me the error that "Error:schema.php could not be included." Can anybody...

Custom data forms in CakePHP

I'm building a controller to manage group based ACL in CakePHP and when I create or edit a group I want to be able to select what permissions it has. The group data table only stores a group ID and a group Name as the permissions are stored in the ACO/ARO table. I have an array from the ACO that I want to turn into a set of checkboxes s...

cakephp links not relative

In my layout, I have a menu that I've included as an element, and it contains a link like so.. <? $html->link('New Part Number','/part_numbers/add'); ?> The problem that I have is that cake isn't redirecting correctly and it ends up sending me to "http://localhost/part_numbers/add" instead of "http://localhost/my_client_folder/client_...

Add/remove Cake named URL parameter for a link

Using CakePHP 1.3 there are named parameters in the URL like .../name:value/... These are used for example by pagination links .../page:2/key:date/sort:desc/... How to generate links with HtmlHelper::link() adding/deleting such named parameters from the current URL? Basically I want create links to add/remove/modify the category:ID nam...