I was responding to the the post from Ryan about 'bake' doing what I was asking for. When I 'run' a project in grails, that is when the table construction from a model is done, so i thought there was more to 'bake' than I had originally thought.
I did go through the blog tutorial as well as the docs on how to create a model. And from what I remember, in both places I had to create the db table myself. You give the docs too much credit to think that in 15 minutes I am supposed to understand why I have to create the db table: 'posts' by hand (http://book.cakephp.org/view/1530/Creating-the-Blog-Database) and then little bit later have to create a model 'Post' with only a property of 'name' that = 'Post' with no other methods. And even then, the reason for that '$name' property isnt exactly clear as to why it's needed: 'The $name variable is always a good idea to add, and is used to overcome some class name oddness in PHP4.' I can understand the logic that the model is an interface to that table, but I dont remember seeing that outlined anywhere. So back to my original questions and just to be clear.... what you are saying is that the only way a table and it's rows are created are by manually creating them in the db myself, right? On Jan 28, 2:44 pm, AD7six <andydawso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 28, 5:04 pm, maxarbos <maxar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I read through the very minimal bake command documentation at: 9.1 and > > 9.2 in the docs, but it's pretty superficial. > > The generation of the schema is a pretty big deal i think and > > something that should be highlighted a little more, if this is what it > > can do. > > > When I started with cake 1.3 a few months ago, > > bake has very little to do with your question > > In cake you edit your db tables however you want and create a model > file to represent your php interface to that table. Creating model > files is actually optional since cake will use an app model instance > for any referenced model which doesn't have a specific file. Therefore > if you add a table to your db foos and add this to your e.g. user > model: > > var hasMany = array('Foo'); > > you can immediately do $this->Foo->find() in/from your user model. > > The blog tutorial should have cemented this for you in the first 15 > minute of using cake - if that wasn't the case for you I'd suggest you > edit the bit that didn't clarify that's how cake works. > > AD -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
