just use casting for this and you will be fine:
echo (int)$car['Car']['is_active'];
Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2012 10:55:57 UTC+2 schrieb Andras Kende:
>
> in cake 1.3 always used tinyint(1) for is_active database fields..
>
> echo $this->Form->input('is_active');
> this created a checkbox and saves 0 or 1 into the database.
>
> Then i could use this 0/1 very conveniently :
>
> <img src="/img/status_<?php echo $car['Car']['is_active']); ?>.png">
>
> find('all', array('codititons' => array('Car.is_active' => 0)))
>
>
> With cakephp 2 its no longer returns as 0 :
> db : 0 = [is_active] => 1 ; ["is_active"]=> bool(true)
> db : 1 = [is_active] => ; ["is_active"]=> bool(false)
>
> Cake 2.0
> http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/appendices/2-0-migration-guide.html
> Boolean column values will be casted to php native boolean type
> automatically,
> so make sure you update your test cases and code if you were expecting the
> returned value to be a string or an integer: If you had a “published”
> column
> in the past using mysql all values returned from a find would be numeric
> in the past,
> now they are strict boolean values.
>
> For now I set :
> form helper manually to : echo $this->Form->checkbox('is_active');
> and db is_active field to : int(1).
>
> Could you confirm if this is the recommended way to handle 0/1 values in
> cakephp 2.x ?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andras Kende
>
>
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