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Posted on 10/14/2011 at 09:25 am | Viewed 840 times | 5 comments
The devil's in the details... I was trying to make a really simple, dreadfully easy, database join in my CakePHP web application. I've forced joins in Cake before, using the 'joins' key in the options array for find calls and paginate calls with no issue. It was late and for the first time I only wanted to use a single join. I copied the join...
Posted on 08/11/2011 at 11:16 pm | Viewed 736 times | 0 comments
Great find. If you want to insert NOW() into your query using CakePHP's save() or saveAll() functions, you can use the following expression: $this->data['Model']['custom_date_field'] = DboSource::expression('NOW()'); Not sure how it works on MSSQL, but I will be testing that soon. Cheers,-Kevin Wentworth
Posted on 08/07/2011 at 05:03 pm | Viewed 923 times | 0 comments
I'm been muddling my way through pagination with multiple joins, and complex filtering. I finally got it all working (more on that later, maybe....) when I noticed that I couldn't paginate my results. Everything was working fine until I added a "group" parameter to the find call. Instead of getting the right count, I got a count of 1! A quic...
Posted on 04/03/2011 at 12:40 pm | Viewed 2,278 times | 2 comments
I ran into an issue today that I've run into before, except I couldn't remember what I did to fix it (hence this article). I was using CakePHP validation rules to validate a user account details. The CakePHP validation was properly failing (the form data wasn't being saved) and I could tell the validate array was set correctly because the requ...
Posted on 02/06/2011 at 10:12 pm | Viewed 2,588 times | 0 comments
Time crunch, so this will be quick. I didn't want to go hunting for how to sort paginated results in CakePHP using a related model field again. I actually found my answer on Stack Overflow. The original poster had it right, so I'm not sure if it was a CakePHP bug or what (I don't have an account or I would correct it... it's on the list of to...
Posted on 11/02/2010 at 05:12 pm | Viewed 2,703 times | 1 comment
I finally found an answer to/solution to something I've never been able to get around in CakePHP before: dynamically changing/setting the useTable value in a model. You can't just say $this->CakePHPModel->useTable = 'cakephp_table_name'; Instead you have to use the following function: Setting CakePHP Model useTable Dynamically $this->CakePHP...
Posted on 10/18/2010 at 06:34 pm | Viewed 2,643 times | 0 comments
In a depature from my [normally] on-topic (i.e. dry) posts I had to post this error message up here. It made me laugh! I was working on the fattest CakePHP controller known to man (over 4,000 lines, I know... not skinny) when Eclipse ran into issues. Eclipse gave a very descriptive error message, stating that it couldn't, well see for yourself:...
Posted on 09/27/2010 at 09:33 pm | Viewed 2,724 times | 2 comments
I've been waiting to publish a completed article until after I was done with my upgrade to CakePHP 1.3. Well, it's taking a while. I'm not blaming the CakePHP upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 for taking so long. I'm actually doing several large-scale changes to my code base, my server and my repository structure. Until that time, I'm going to publish...
Posted on 09/25/2010 at 09:25 am | Viewed 2,195 times | 2 comments
Well, I never thought I would be saying this, but I'm starting to love using SSH to manage certain elements of my server. Now that I'm using ssh bash to make some updates to my server, I find myself constantly hunting for the simple commands. I'm going to put all the commands I need below, because I'm the idiot and it's my guide. Changing Dir...
Posted on 09/23/2010 at 01:39 pm | Viewed 8,216 times | 0 comments
I've been looking for the silver bullet solution to using KDiff3 as my git mergetool on Windows (using Git GUI). I've finally got a solution that works in every Windows environment I've tried: Add the KDiff3 directory to your Windows System Path (e.g. C:\Program Files\KDiff3\) Add kdiff3 as your Git mergetool (From Git Bash, run git config ...
