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Guide on creating first application

2009-12-10T12:50:45Z

Hi all,

I am about to create my first application with cakephp.
Actuallly I'm an experienced php programmer.

I already went to the guide on creating the blog application.

Find attached my database structure.

As you can see I have many relationships.

I tried through the console creating the forms, but for some reason I can't

Authentication (cookies?) across different domains

2009-12-10T14:48:06Z

Hey guys,

developing a multilanguage application I thought to have different
languages according to the domain extension:

i.e.
mysite.com => english
mysite.it => italian

How can I keep the user authenticated across the 2 domains via
cookies?

---------------------------
I know that with subdomains you can just set the cookie config as

Database field not reading or writing

2009-12-10T14:42:03Z

I've come across a really strange problem - or else I'm doing
something really stupid.

Basically, there is a field in one of my db tables which Cake just
seems to be ignoring. The field is in a table called 'Users', and is
called 'recommendations'.

When I do

$this->User->findById($userid) ;

xgettext: waring: file`' extension `' is unknown; will try C poedit

2009-12-10T14:14:28Z

Hi,

when I tried to create po file.

Im getting the following error message

xgettext: waring: file`' extension `' is unknown; will try C

updation failed.

I have given path
controllers
views/posts
.

and keyword as __

But updation is failing......

Please guide..

Thanks in advance

global functions

2009-12-10T13:32:08Z

Hello.

i have some simple functions such as

array_depth
array_width
array_integrate

and so on

that are used in both Controllers and Views.

it's very uncomfortable to copy them in a helper and in a component @
every little mod.

is there any clever way to manage these funcs?

Testing for Ajax

2009-12-10T12:58:12Z

I want to use the Ajax helper when Javascript is enabled, but revert
to the plain old ordinary html helper when it is not. How can I do a
simple test to see if Javascript is enabled?

Solution for multi-lingual application with the same content

2009-12-10T11:09:23Z

I need solution for multi-lingual application where are galleries,
product's categories and product list.

Let's say i create gallery, product's categories and products in
primary language and i need to translate them in second language, but
with the same gallery images, product categories and products. I don't

Changes in CakePHP and new plugins

2009-12-10T04:04:55Z

With the development of 1.3 and 2.0 well underway the CakePHP team has
taken some time to re-evaluate and reconsider some of the tools we use
as a team and as a community. Recently, CakePHP has undergone several
changes, such as switching from Subversion to Git, and switching from
trac to the current code.cakephp.org issue tracker. Each of these

Undefined variable: url [APP/webroot/index.php ?

2009-12-09T23:30:03Z

I got error:

Notice (8): Undefined variable: url [APP/webroot/index.php, line 82]
Code | Context

} else {
$Dispatcher = new Dispatcher();
$Dispatcher->dispatch($url);

$GLOBALS = array(
"GLOBALS" => array(
"GLOBALS" => array(),
"_ENV" => array(),

I recently upgraded from 1.1.8 to 1.3 alpha.

Running the action twice?

2009-12-09T23:05:39Z

I have looked over this code many times and really just don't know why
this is happening. It seems that cake is performing the action twice.
How do I know this? I am receiving 2 of each email. If I put an exit
statement before the end of the action, I only receive 1 of each
email.

As a background, I am using Security->requireSecure() in my

Create .ctp file

2009-12-09T22:19:30Z

Hi All,

I am starting discovering CakePHP and have try to do the blog tutorial

Here is a trivial question:

How to create a view ? How to create a .ctp file ??

I have not find nothing about that!!

Thanks

Oliver

MAC + CakePHP

2009-12-09T18:37:01Z

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to do some test with my cakephp setup.

My folder structure:
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/wils/projects/ibanx

bash-3.2$ ls -alh
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 7 wils staff 238B 8 Dec 21:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 wils staff 238B 8 Dec 20:22 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 wils staff 1.1K 9 Sep 00:21 README

dyamic dropdown list wtih dyanamic optgroup

2009-12-09T15:00:27Z

Hi there cakephp experts! I am looking for you help on a dyanmic
dropdown list with dyanamic optgroup. Suppose I have two tables:

countries: id, country_name,

counties: id, county_name, country_id

Now, I want to display a dropdown list with optgroups populated frm
countries table and list items populated from counties.

XML Helper & Cake = Bugs!

2009-12-09T14:11:36Z

Hi,

I need to use XML and JSON outputs for an API that I program for a
project that has a web backend and multiple mobile clients.

The Javascript helper with Cake works just fine, but the XML Helper is
full of bugs. I posted the initial problem here:

[link]

How to validate HABTM model with extra fields?

2009-12-09T13:28:30Z

Hello, I've already asked on cakeqs.org but I'll try also here.

My case is: Order HABTM Product. In joining table orders_products I've
extra field - quantity. Now, when editing Order I can add Products and
enter quantitiy. Here is what I've done already:

In model Order:
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(

Problem with AJAX submission

2009-12-09T13:03:36Z

Hi there,

I just built an AJAX form and it doesn't work at all!

My code:

<div id="messages" style="display: none">
<h3>Recover lost password</h3>
<p>Enter your e-mail address and we will send a reset link to your
email
<?php echo $form->create('User'); ?>
<?php echo $form->input('email', array('label' => __('Your

index function question

2009-12-09T10:53:38Z

Hi guys.

I have a question, I am defining my index function but I am struggling
a bit with something.

I want to have my index function only show all records in my index
with the associated users id.

How does one go about this?

here is what I have:

function index() {
$conditions = $this->Health->find('first', array('conditions' =>

Function exists

2009-12-09T08:24:42Z

I want to call a function in a controller from my app_controller, but
want to check it exists first. I've fiddled around with
function_exists but can't get the syntax right. This is the current
version of the code (which doesn't work):

function getRelations($id = null) {
if (function_exists($this->{$this ->modelClass}->relations())):

How to keep integer keys in array_merge() function?

2009-12-09T07:58:50Z

I use array_merge() to merge some association arrays.
$array1 = array('a'=>'A', 'b'=>'B');
$array2 = array(12=>12, 13=>13, 14=>14);

$merged = array_merge($array1,$array2);
And then, $merge = ('a'=>'A','b'=>'B',0=>12,1=>13 ,2=>14);

How to keep 12,13,14 as keys in the new array?
Thanks in advanced!

Internationalization in Cakephp help( for a newbie)

2009-12-09T06:27:46Z

Hi all,

Im newbie to cakephp. But have implemented so many cakephp concept.

Now I want to implement internationalization to my application.

I dont know wat to use. i18n, p28n or l10n.

I even dont the difference between them.

Please give me one sample so that I can continue with it for my modules.

Poll component

2009-12-09T03:11:22Z

Hi, is there any poll component or some php Poll code which is CakePHP
friendly?

unbindModel issues

2009-12-08T20:06:51Z

I have a users model and a photos model.

The model for users is set up that it "hasMany" Photos and "belongsTo"
Photo

During this code.

$this->Profile->Behaviors->att ach('Containable');

$this->Profile->recursive=2;

$this->Profile->User->Photo->r ecursive=0;

Parsing cakephp form data in javascript for ajax? Please advise!

2009-12-08T18:42:30Z

I love the cakephp framework, but I'm trying to create a primarily
javascript/ajax application.

Given the way cakephp assigns variables for its forms (ex data
[Inventory][name]), how can I submit this data in javascript/ajax and
parse it in the javascript so that it will end up as a valid hash

Help With Validation Question

2009-12-08T18:30:20Z

I am attempting to allow user to edit their url and email, so i load the
form up and leave it blank since both have to be unique if its filled with
their original info and edit 1 field the other will fail because it says
email / or url already exists since they only changed one. So save the form

Media Views, Caching, and Auth - a possible problem

2009-12-08T17:41:07Z

I'm having a bit of an awkward time with Media Views recently after
extending my site to use a controller I had built using it (Document
Controller). I'm experiencing a couple things:

1. Internet Explorer seems to not actually load the file if caching is
either set to false, or simply not set.

Calling function within a controller

2009-12-08T16:54:02Z

This may be really dumb, but I'm having trouble calling a function
from within a controller. Here's my set up:

function accept_this($id = null) {
... some bits of code ...
$result = accept($id);
... processing of result ...

function accept($id = null) {
... some code ...
return $result; ($result has been set in the code part of this

Get natural SQL built by Model methods like find, save

2009-12-08T10:46:25Z

Hi All,

Sometimes we want to see what query CakePHP has built and executed for
find and save methods if query fails or we don't get desired result.
In find method we pass array for conditions, order and grouping etc.
but how they were interpreted to build SQL is checked if we can see
the SQL (select * from..., update table set field='value'... etc.) .

ACL - aco/aro creation help

2009-12-08T07:05:52Z

Hi all,

I am using ACL with my cakePHP application. I want to assign
permissions to the users. I have groups table, in which I have 3 types
of groups called
1. superadmin
2. admin
3. member

The permissions are like superadmin can access all the controllers
actions, admin can also access all the actions but can't access

404 Not Found Error

2009-12-08T04:20:18Z

Any idea why this would happen?
site/admin/users/add when i go to that page it works fine. Add a new user
which goes to site/admin/users/add and I get 404 Error.

The page is obviously there and accessible since im on the page adding a
user but when i post the data it comes back 404.

Any ideas why this might happen?

checking class variable if exists

2009-12-08T02:42:52Z

hey guys. i suppose this is just a question about PHP classes in
general..i have a class called Store
like so:

class Store {
public $id;
public $name;
public $url;
public $email;

function __construct($data) {

sanitize::clean

2009-12-08T00:24:07Z

Is there a way to not clean specific keys in an array? My id has '-' in it
so I would like to not clean specific keys of the array.

Dave

cakephp can't load CSS and images and all things on Webroot and more

2009-12-07T22:44:18Z

when I installed cakePHP on Ubuntu 9.10 & fedora 12 I got a problem
cakePHP seems to be not able to load CSS, IMAGES, Javascripts and it
responds by "NOT FOUND, The requested URL /myApp/tags was not found on
this server", It sounds like a mod_rewrite problem !. I enabled the
rewrite and still get the same problem. When I uncommented this line

CakePHP Modified and Created GMT Time

2009-12-07T21:20:27Z

When CakePHP automatically updates the modified and created columns
([link]), it uses the
server's timezone, and not the GMT timezone (i.e - gmdate(), etc.).
Why is this?

If I were to move to a server in a different timezone, I would have to
adjust any timezone offset calculated from the modified and created

Accessing model properties from form->input

2009-12-07T19:17:23Z

I'm trying to use the form helper to render a bunch of radio inputs.
By default, as you will know, the options are taken from a simple
key=>value array retrieved from the database using $this->Model->find
("list"). However, I want the value labels to be styled showing a
heading, paragraph text and a small image, all of this data is stored

Running cake using a cron job

2009-12-07T15:52:09Z

I know this has been discussed before on the group, but I'm still
confused after reading the answers!

Here's what I want to do. I have an application which needs to send
an email once a week to all registered users. I want to automate this
using a cron job.

The function for sending the email is called 'email' and is in the

Adding a controller - File not found?

2009-12-07T17:19:16Z

Hey all,

I recently completed my first Cakephp application, based around a
single controller. I thought I would try expanding it with more
functionality, so I started up a second blank controller. Just to make
sure it would work correctly, I setup the controller blank, with
scaffolding turned on (I wrote up the associated model as well). When

Enable access to / without Auth

2009-12-07T15:51:47Z

I've enabled Auth for my controllers and protected various actions for
my application, however [link] immediately goes to the
login screen. In app_controller, beforefilter function, I've added
$this->Auth->allow('index'); line but it is still prompting for
login. How can I enable public access to the initial page of my site?

Auth + Acl + Redirect

2009-12-07T13:28:52Z

Sorry for my English.

I'm doing an access control system using Auth and Acl components.

In AppController:
$this->Auth->loginAction = array ('controller' => 'users', 'action' =>
'login');
$this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array ('controller' => 'users', 'action'
=> 'login');
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array ('controller' => 'posts', 'action'

VALIDATION

2009-12-07T12:01:26Z

Hi all,

I have 2 model called User,user_phone...I have imported user_phone in User
model...and I have done basic Add,Edit,Delete functionality...

Now the problem is...

In my view page I have input fields as username,password which belongs to
user table and one more input field as number which belongs to user_phone...

Populate a dropdown using Ajax

2009-12-07T10:44:33Z

Hello all,
i have 2 fields in a page. one is a dropdown(Roles) & other is a
text field(Add New Role).
The Rolesin the dropdown are coming from the database.
Now i need to add a New Role. this has to be saved in the DB as i
click on create. When the page loads again this New Role should be
shown in the DropDown(Roles) list.

paginator help

2009-12-07T10:25:52Z

Hello ,

I am having a problem with pagination. When i post data the paginator give
me correct result but when i click on next page the result are not comming
according to post value. how do i post a value from one page to another?

any idea?

Thanks

Use of Multiple Fields in $displayField var in Models

2009-12-07T05:44:58Z

I want to use 2 Concatenated fields in $displayField variable in a
model so that the view can show both FirstName and LastName in the
dropdown selection.

var $displayField = "firstName";

I need something like
var $displayField = "firstName"." "."lastName";

The above statement is not valid in a variable declaration inside a

Use of Associations in Add / Insert

2009-12-07T04:55:23Z

I have 3 different roles in my application. "Customers", "Customer
Support Agent", "Sales Rep".

Common fields in all 3 are:

FirstName
LastName
Email
username
password
role_id
etc.......

Role Specific Fields are:

Customers:
==========

1. Social Security Number
2. Date of Birth

Just a little help

2009-12-07T03:34:10Z

I have tried so many different ideas and none seem to work out the way I
wanted so I am asking for some input as to ideas or how you would do it.

Idea is simple...I want the user to edit their info throughout the site on
the same page so no clicked edit > go to edit page > save and back to view.

form->input keeps value after submit is presed

2009-12-06T20:38:58Z

hello,
I have a comment view for a blog witch looks like this:

<div class="comments form">
<?php echo $form->create('Comment');?>
<fieldset>
<legend><?php __('Add Comment');?></legend>
<?php
echo $form->input('name', array('value' => ''));
echo $form->input('content', array('value' => ''));

Pagination of result of SQL query in CakePHP

2009-12-06T12:59:06Z

SELECT `User`.`id`, `User`.`username`, `User`.`password`,
`User`.`email`, `User`.`country_id`, `User`.`state_id`, `User`.`city`,
`User`.`zipcode`, `User`.`created`, `User`.`modified`, `Country`.`id`,
`Country`.`name`, `Profile`.`id`, `Profile`.`user_id`,
`Profile`.`pickupline`, `Profile`.`categoryseek_id`, `Profile`.`dob`,

Pagination..

2009-12-06T12:47:07Z

I have my result set ( of an SQL query operating on two models) in the
form of an array.....

How can i paginate this?

emulate hasMany relationship as Master/Detail relation or one to many

2009-12-06T07:47:53Z

I am using "hasMany" Relationship with cakephp.

I have relationship like

Tender=>hasMany=>TenderDocumen ts

with this kind of relationship.

I am at "[link]"
Now i click "New Tender Document" and goto
[link]

Help With Ajax response - Ajax Handler component

2009-12-06T21:31:05Z

I am trying to edit a form using Ajax. I have the submit, save or error all
working. Just the response I am having problems with. I am trying to use
Miles Ajax Handler component and basically from the controller i need to :

if form saves return a success response and the Ajax view with the updated

CakePHP config issue

2009-12-06T17:30:44Z

Hi all,

It's been a while that I have been trying to config cakePHP to use
it... But all the time I face a new problem! Rrrr

Here is my error message:

"Missing Database Table

Error: Database table cakephps for model Cakephp was not found."

I am not sure to know why I should have a "cakephps" table... How many