Thanks again. Last question of the day - what to do to get created and
modified fields to work automagically. Created can be defaulted to current
timestamp, what about modified?
Tarique
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:01 PM, José Lorenzo <jose....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Entities go in App/Model/Entity/ and they should be the singular of your
> table without suffixes. For example App/Model/Entity/Article.php that way
> cakephp will be able to load it and know it is associated to ArticlesTable.
>
> If you wish to divert from the conventions you can change it in your table
> class:
>
> class ArticlesTable extends Table {
>
> public function initialize(array $config) {
> $this->entityClass('App\Model\ArticleEntity');
> }
> }
>
> In general I would not recommend this as it makes it harder for the
> FormHelper to figure out where stuff is.
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:12:30 AM UTC+1, Dr. Tarique Sani wrote:
>
>> ok that brings me to the next question.
>>
>> How do I get $article = $this->Articles->newEntity($this->request->data);
>> to use the Entity class I have created in App/Model/ArticleEntity.php ?
>> Doesn't the controller automagically include it, What is the convention for
>> Entity classes?
>>
>> Tarique
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:53 PM, José Lorenzo <jose...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This could possibly be the most difficult part to understand in 3.0 and
>>> may be subject to change if it turns out to be too complicated. All
>>> properties in the entities are protected by default against mass
>>> assignment, you need to modify your Article entity in order to let CakePHP
>>> know what properties can be assigned by newEntity:
>>>
>>> class Article extends Entity {
>>>
>>> protected $_accessible = ['title' => true, 'body' => true];
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> or if you just don't care (not recommended):
>>>
>>> class Article extends Entity {
>>>
>>> protected $_accessible = ['*' => true];
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> The latter can be seen as a Eloquent::unguard();
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:30:45 AM UTC+1, Dr. Tarique Sani wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wonder why saving is failing
>>>>
>>>> I am doing
>>>>
>>>> $article = $this->Articles->newEntity($this->request->data);
>>>>
>>>> if ($this->Articles->save($article)) {
>>>> $this->Session->setFlash(__('Your article has been
>>>> saved.'));
>>>> return $this->redirect(['action' => 'index']);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> $this->Session->setFlash(__('Unable to add your article.'));
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> debug($this->request->data);
>>>>
>>>> gives
>>>>
>>>> [
>>>> 'title' => 'Test Title',
>>>> 'body' => 'This is the body'
>>>> ]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but debug($article);
>>>>
>>>> give
>>>>
>>>> object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {
>>>>
>>>> 'new' => null,
>>>> 'accessible' => [],
>>>> 'properties' => [],
>>>> 'dirty' => [],
>>>> 'virtual' => [],
>>>> 'errors' => []
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> What can possibly be wrong. I am guessing the title and body should
>>>> appear as properties of the newly created entity without which the saving
>>>> will not happen
>>>>
>>>> I did a composer update just now - so I do have the latest code.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Tarique
>>>>
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