Dabble around with the debug() method, like
$this->data = $this->Model->find( /* conditions */ );
debug($this->data);
You'll find the answer eventually...
On 16 Oct 2008, at 16:41, Cody Sortore wrote:
> Okay, I added this:
>
> if ($secretid != /* What Goes Here? */ ) {
>
> $this->flash(__('Invalid Secret Identification Code', true),
> array('action'=>'index'));
>
> }
>
> Tried several different things, but I'm a noob, which is why I
> couldn't get it to work in the first place, I was just messing around
> with some of the code that was baked up for me but it's not working.
> How do you call a single item from the database?
>
>
> On Oct 16, 1:28 am, "David C. Zentgraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Think twice about what's actually going on in that code...
>>
>> If no $id or $secretid were supplied, you redirect somewhere else.
>> If $this->data is not empty... doesn't matter.
>> Then, last case that always gets triggered if there's ANY $id or
>> $secretid, you fetch the data from the DB and present it to the user.
>>
>> There's no validation of the $secretid going on whatsoever, how do
>> you
>> expect it to work?
>>
>> On 16 Oct 2008, at 14:36, Cody Sortore wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Okay, with the particular site I'm building a log in system isn't
>>> necessary, and people don't want it. The problem is that I want to
>>> allow the creator editing access still. People make mistakes, or may
>>> need to delete spam comments occasionally.
>>
>>> What I was thinking was to have a place when creating their page
>>> they
>>> put in a "secret id" that then goes into the database and what I
>>> want
>>> to do is so that the only way to access the edit page is to have
>>> that
>>> secret id in the url for example:
>>
>>> http://www.testsite.com/inventory/edit/secretid/1/
>>
>>> I've actually got that working with this code:
>>
>>> http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1344979601
>>
>>> and a view that has a hidden field for the secret id. Problem is
>>> with
>>> what I have anything in place of the secret id allows you to edit.
>>> Examples:
>>
>>> http://www.testsite.com/inventory/edit/12345/1/
>>> http://www.testsite.com/inventory/edit/iamahaxor/1/
>>> http://www.testsite.com/inventory/edit/1/1/
>>
>>> will all allow you to edit inventory item number 1.
>>
>>> Another annoyance I've noticed is that if you have an inventory
>>> number
>>> higher than what the table goes up to. Say with this one in test
>>> runs
>>> I've only got 3 inventory items to work with right now. If I put:
>>
>>> http://www.testsite.com/inventory/edit/secretid/1337/
>>
>>> it simply adds another inventory item to the list... this like I
>>> said
>>> is only a minor nuisance and can be ignored, the important part is
>>> the
>>> data validation (which may be fix this trouble too).
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