database configuration from core/database.php

2010-07-08 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, is there a way to access the database configuration that is saved in core/database.php form a behaviour? Background: I would like to get some information from the database in a behaviour. Unfortunately the database table does not belong to the current model and loading the model using Clas

Re: use model in behaviour

2010-07-05 Thread Melanie Sommer
> Which callback? BeforeFind, but is that important? > The model instance is passed to the callbacks I know, but I do not want to use that model of the callback but a different model - and this is not passed to the callback. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help ot

use model in behaviour

2010-07-04 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, How can I use a model in a behaviour? I created a behaviour with a callback function. In one specific situation I would like to do a find on one of my models. >From old codes it seems in cakephp 2.6 $model->mymodelname->find() worked. Now I am using cakephp version 3 and I get the error

Auth, login, own validation of password

2010-06-28 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I would like to use the user and password table of a CMS for authentification in my small cake application. So I told cake to use the table form the database for users. class User extends AppModel { var $useTable = 'cms_users'; } I know how to check whether the password from the f

Re: validation errors

2010-06-24 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello Mark, thank you for your detailled explanation. It works :-) Melanie Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to thi

Auth::authorize - controller -- How to handle guests?

2010-06-24 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I am using AuthComponent with authorization from the controller. Thus my app_controller.php looks like ## class AppController extends Controller { var $components = array('Auth','RequestHandler'); var $uses = array('User'); public function be

Re: validation errors

2010-06-20 Thread Melanie Sommer
> Because Cake do not save if validation failed and pass validation > errors to view automatically. Form helper render these errors when use > $from->input() method. Yes it does and it works beautifully - but not for input fields that do not belong of the current model. If my Model1 has only Model

validation errors

2010-06-19 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hi, In an add view I have several input fields that contain data for more than one model. I sort, validate and save this data in the controller using if($this->Model->validates()){ $this->Model->create(); if($this->Model->save($data)){ ... }else{ ... } }else{ $

Re: Migrating to 1.3 - error "undefned property: view::$session in default.cpt

2010-06-12 Thread Melanie Sommer
Sorry I forgot the second part of the error message: Fatal error: Call to a member function flash() on a non-objekct in / app/views/layouts/default.ctp on line 43 Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this m

Migrating to 1.3 - error "undefned property: view::$session in default.cpt

2010-06-12 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I tried to migrate from 1.2.7 to 1.3.2. I downloaded cake 1.3.2 and ran the console to create a new project. All I did in this new project is edit the app_controler.php file and include the line var $helpers = array('Html'); I then get the error message (when calling cake/myapp) "Notice:

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
I now simply wrote header("Content-Type: text/plain"); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="text.txt"'); into my controller - that seems rather dirty, but it works. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. Yo

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
> I just wrote a quick PlaintextHelper (3 minutes!) based on the > CsvHelper I'm already using. Check it out here: > > http://pastebin.com/u46cWX7T Well it does not work, header is still html. I also do not understand why it should work. The only thing you are doing is taking elements/users/txt_d

Re: view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
> Because the View class uses output buffering. Have a look at MediaView > instead: Thank you; but I am afraid I did not figure out how this helps me MediaView Summary: "Methods to display or download any type of file" I do not want to display or download a file as there exists no file. The cont

view as downloadable text/plain

2010-04-12 Thread Melanie Sommer
I want to have the output as plain text offered with a download dialog. This works fine on my server with a .php file outside of cake that looks like In cake I create a new layout in views/layouts/tex.ctp content: in my controller I wrote Configure::write('debug', '0'); $this->render(null,'tex

Access Control

2010-01-16 Thread Melanie Sommer
I am programming a database front-end. The database contains data for various products, one table for the data, another for the product, one for the company, all related to each other with "belongsTo" and "hasMany". I want to restrict the access of users to individual datasets. Every table has a f

paginating - several on one page

2009-12-27 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I try to have several tables with paginated data in one view. ### texttexttexttext div with paginated data 1 div with paginated data 2 div with paginated data 3 ### When loading the page the first time everything seems correct except for

Re: Order by Contain field

2009-10-22 Thread Melanie Sommer
> Hi > does anyone know if it's possible to order by a contained fields? It > seems to me like a simple task but I'm unable to manage it.. I have a > User model associated with a Group field and I'd like to order User by > Group.name. Do you mean paginator function sort() ? There you simpy need t

Re: validate - unique - error message

2009-10-12 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello Marcelo, > Check the CakePHP version you're using is the same > used in the tutorial. It is not (I am using the latest version), but that does not help me to learn how I can get error messages. Melanie --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because yo

validate - unique - error message

2009-10-11 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I am using code from the bakery tutorials to validate my form elements for unique records. http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/checking-for-duplicate-records-unique-record (I am using the code of comment no. 5 as I need to validate for a unique combination of fields) It works fine, bu

paginator, containable -> sort() does not work for not directly related fields

2009-10-05 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I have a very nested belongsTo/hasMany structure of my models: A belongsTo C B belongsTo C C belongsTo D D belongsTo E F belongsTo E G belongsTo E In E/index I want to list all E with the respective titles of all related models. EsController looks like this: #

Re: $form->input('') when database-field contains special characters

2009-10-03 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello Martin > Since the field is empty I suspect you may have Sanitize in place, or > some other text cleaner. No (not that I know, just the standard content that cakephp gives you when baking) > A simple character set problem should give you garbage but not empty strings. This is also was I tho

Re: paginator, containable -> what $key for sort()

2009-10-02 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello Brian, > $paginator->sort('text in link', 'D.cell name', array('title' => > 'title attribute of link')) this works - but only for models which are directly related to the actual model. Cakephp does not recognize Models which belong to a Model that belongs to the actual model (A belongsTo C

paginator, containable -> what $key for sort()

2009-10-02 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I am using containable behaviour in paginate() in my controller namend "E". In my view I can use sort('title of cell in table E') to sort the results. But I did not find a way to sort by any fields not belonging to table E. I tried sort('D.cell name') - but the syntax seems to be wrong.

Re: find() when having nested models

2009-10-01 Thread Melanie Sommer
Problem solved. There was a typing error in the C model. Sorry! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

Re: find() when having nested models

2009-10-01 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello John, I already tried putting all X.id and X.Y_id in the respective field arrays - no change. And this also does not explain, why cakephp does the right thing automatically when I select B, C, D, F, and G, but not when selecting A. What I do not understand is the difference between the beh

$form->input('') when database-field contains special characters

2009-10-01 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, I have the following problem, I already googled but did not find an answer although I think it must be a quite common problem: When adding or editing and inserting a special character in a text field (for example ä, ö, ü, ², µ, ...) everything seems at first to work fine. The text is corr

Re: find() when having nested models

2009-10-01 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hi John, > I think I read somewhere (here in the group) that you need to include > the foreign keys in the fields definition, so containable can see > them! I read contain automatically also includes the foreign keys in it's sql-query. http://book.cakephp.org/view/474/Containable : "As you can se

Re: find() when having nested models

2009-10-01 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello Brian, thank you for the information about containable. It works fine, except for one problem. I use this code: > $this->E->find( > 'all', > array( > 'contain' => array( > 'D' => array( > 'fields' => array('D.tit

find() when having nested models

2009-09-29 Thread Melanie Sommer
What is the best way of acessing tables A and B? Do I really need query () or is there a different way? Thanks! Melanie Sommer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to th

interlinked selects

2009-09-29 Thread Melanie Sommer
Hello, Please excuse my bad English, I am not a native speaker. I only started CakePHP two weaks ago, read a book about it and am now trying to program my project. I have some experience in php, mysql, html and css but hardly any knowledge of javascript or ajax. I have several tables linked with