Setting complex ‘find’ conditions in CakePHP can be tricky. I picked an example of Cakephp complex find conditions from one of my CakePHP projects. I wanted to list all auctions which are “not closed” and whose’ end date/time is greater…
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Installing PHPUnit in wamp in Windows7
Installing PEAR package manager Add php directory to your Windows’ Environment Variables PATH, if it is not already added. My wamp php path is “C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.13”. Check Adding to Environment Variables Path if you are not sure how to add a…
Setting id of input wrapper div in cakephp and hiding by default
It might be a simple thing for most of CakePHP pro’s but at the same time it could be a tricky thing for CakePHP newbies. I just caught one newbie CakePHP developer of my team spending time on figuring this…
How to get current theme name or theme working in cakephp
Making theme set and available by setting theme related properties in controller Prior to cakephp 2.0 class UserController extends AppController { var $view = ‘Theme’; //tells controller to use “ThemeView” class instead of the default “View” class var $theme =…
Conditional skip for a field from model validation in a cakephp controller
In a controller, a table field could be skipped from model validations by editing the “validate” property of a model. For example, i have a “date” validation for “dob” (date of birth) field set in my “User” model.
A note on $form->dateTime(‘field_name’) generating offset warning in CakePHP
This is a note on $form->dateTime(‘field_name’) generating offset warning i.e. “Notice (8): Undefined offset: 1 [CORE/cake/libs/view/helpers/form.php, line 1836..“. If your “date” form field in a view is generating a similar warning you may need to look into the following scenario.
A tip on CakePHP find list with related model conditions
You will need to add recursive=>(value) to the $params when you need to get a ‘list’ of table items using related model conditions. Referring to the example depicted here, http://book.cakephp.org/view/1022/find-list let’s say you perform the following query:
An example of Google Checkout Integration in CakePHP
NOTE: You will have to make changes into the component code in order to get it working with you application. This is only a sample component and it should not be taken as a plug-and-play kind of component. NOTE: Download…
Cakephp important facts you must know – Part 3
You load a plugin model like this: $this->loadModel(“Forum.Topic”) You output requestAction result using $this->requestAction(array(‘controller’ => ‘articles’, ‘action’ => ‘featured’), array(‘return’)); // see array(‘return’)
A note on difference between app:import and loadmodel in CakePHP
Posting for, someone searched for terms “cakephp what is the difference between app:import model and loadmodel” and “cakephp what is the difference between app:import and loadmodel” and landed on my blog page but unfortunately i could not provide the answer…
