I haven't been able to figure out why I have a set of views that aren't
able to load values set in the AppController or why I have to navigate
outside of the controller to refresh the CSS for those views, but what I
did discover today is that I have another set of views under a different
controller that are behaving the same way. Not sure if it's related to
cache or sessions or perhaps a permissions issue of some sort but it's
becoming increasingly more difficult to work around it. Any ideas are
greatly appreciated.
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:41:38 PM UTC-4, CrotchFrog wrote:
>
> I realize now that my original issue may not have been so much fetching
> data from the AppController but more so setting the data to be available in
> the view. To test I set a misc value *$this->set('variable', 'some
> data'); *in the beforeFilter() of the AppController. *$variable *is
> available in every view but the ones associated with the Articles
> controller (I changed it from 'News' to rule out issues with naming
> conventions). View, add, edit, etc. it's not available in any view for that
> controller. The views for that controller act almost as if they are being
> cached. Changes to the content are immediately visible but altering the CSS
> takes having to navigate out of the Articles controller and then back in
> for the changes to take effect whereas the changes are immediate in all
> other views. No matter what I try I cannot access *$variable *in any of
> the article views. Could changing from 'News' to 'Articles' have caused the
> issue somehow? I'm not quite sure where to start looking for the cause of
> the problem.
>
> On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 1:54:34 PM UTC-4, CrotchFrog wrote:
>>
>> Problem solved, I worked out the issue. I have a few spots in my layout
>> that display dynamic data and I usually use Jquery $('#element').load() to
>> populate those spaces. I threw $this->News->get(); into the AppController
>> beforeFilter to temporarily retrieve the needed data as I worked on
>> styling, etc. When I got around to creating my JS file and removed the code
>> from beforeFilter the problem immediately went away. To confirm I put the
>> code back and the problem returned. Here and there I'll use the
>> AppController to house some shared logic but cannot think of a time I tried
>> to retrieve data through it (excluding this time). Generally I'll use
>> Jquery and/or view blocks to utilize or extend my existing
>> views/controllers. Anyhow, I suppose I never gave it much thought and it's
>> probably a bit unconventional but is fetching data through the
>> AppController really enough to break your app? There are plenty of times I
>> don't understand things as well I think or would like to but I didn't think
>> using the AppController in such a way was basically throwing a wrench into
>> the works. I feel like I'm still missing something here which is generally
>> the case :)
>>
>> On Monday, October 21, 2013 1:26:38 PM UTC-4, CrotchFrog wrote:
>>>
>>> I ran into an issue trying to save a datetime field and I haven't been
>>> able to figure out why it's not saving (not failing).
>>> Database set up is Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS w/ Percona Server 5.6 -- I'm
>>> using Cake 2.4.1
>>>
>>> //table set up
>>>
>>> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `news`;
>>> CREATE TABLE `news` (
>>> `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
>>> `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
>>> `title` tinytext NOT NULL,
>>> `article` text NOT NULL,
>>> `start` datetime NOT NULL,
>>> `stop` datetime NOT NULL,
>>> `created` datetime NOT NULL,
>>> `modified` datetime NOT NULL,
>>> PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
>>> ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=23 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
>>>
>>> Before saving I convert user input into a savable format. I tried the
>>> conversion in both controller and model beforeSave.
>>>
>>> // conversion
>>>
>>> $xstart = explode('-', $this->request->data['News']['start']);
>>> $start = strtotime($xstart[0].' '.$xstart[1]);
>>> $date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $start);
>>> $this->request->data['News']['start'] = $date;
>>>
>>> $xstop = explode('-', $this->request->data['News']['stop']);
>>> $stop = strtotime($xstop[0].' '.$xstop[1]);
>>> $expire = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $stop);
>>> $this->request->data['News']['stop'] = $expire;
>>>
>>> // debug request data
>>>
>>> array(
>>> 'News' => array(
>>> 'start' => '2013-10-21 13:13:00',
>>> 'stop' => '2013-10-22 21:00:00',
>>> 'title' => 'Test Article Title',
>>> 'article' => 'Test Article Body',
>>> 'user_id' => '5'
>>> )
>>> )
>>>
>>>
>>> The request does not fail but it also does not save to DB.
>>>
>>>
>>> // To test what's happening bypass conversion and throw together quick data
>>> array
>>>
>>>
>>> $this->request->data = array(
>>> 'News' => array(
>>> 'title' => 'this is a title',
>>> 'article' => 'this is an article',
>>> 'start' => '2013-10-22 13:00:00',
>>> //'stop' => '2013-10-22 13:00:00',
>>> ));
>>>
>>>
>>> Data saves fine as long as 'stop' key is not in the array. As soon as I
>>> include the key, nothing saves (I changed the column name a few times
>>> thinking perhaps there was an issue with the name but it didn't help).
>>>
>>>
>>> If I change the array to use converted data, ie. 'start' => $date it will
>>> not save. Tried casting $date as string, it didn't help.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, using either formatted date from converted data will not save. My test
>>> array saves as long as I don't include the 'stop' key or try to include
>>> converted data.
>>>
>>> I checked all my error logs but there is nothing there. I was sure I'm
>>> overlooking something simple but I just don't see it.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm stumped (or perhaps more frustrated at this point).
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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