On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:05:16 AM UTC-6, rahajiyev wrote: > > You can keep laughing all you want, but I at least could get CakePHP > to work with an existing Oracle database lacking primary keys for a > backend app involving role permissions, forms, pagination and other > usual web stuff, as opposed to designing a new app and database from > scratch. I worked around the lack of primary keys using Oracle's ROWID > and Cake's $virtualFields. From then on $rowid was as good as a usual > field for the purposes of data retrieval and updating. > Then I thought I'd rewrite this simple app in Django while learning it > at the same time. But Django doesn't really allow me to use such > virtual fields easily. Ian gave me a solution to my problem here: > > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/77f8353da1bcca53 > > > but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. Maybe someone here has > an idea?
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