Timeline for 2.3 ?
Hi CakePHP people - could not see an answer to this anywhere else - is there a timeline to when the 2.3 branch might be released? Weeks or months at this stage? N -- Like Us on FacekBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- 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 group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en.
Packaging mechanism for CakePHP Plugins ??
What is the current state (if any) for the packaging of CakePHP plugins? We currently have (Plugins listed here http://plugins.cakephp.org/) which is great, but it might be even more awesome if from a cake shell (or similar) you could search for plugins and install (with dependency resolution) new plugins, much the same way as apt-get works for Debian, npm for Node and pear for PHP... etc etc etc. Seems you might be able to leverage Github pulling tarballs from there (Terms of Service check!!) which then means all that is required is some kind of agreeable CakePHP package meta definition file -plus- a central index that can serve responses pointing to Github tarballs. An example might be:- $ cake packages search foobar Which would send a query to a suitable host that stores an index of all registered CakePHP plugins that contain the meta definition file, that host would return information about all packages related to foobar. So I might then type:- $ cake packages install the-foobar-thing Which in this case would pull the latest the-foobar-thing tarball/zipball package from Github, unpack it, parse the meta definition file to determine if there are dependencies and process any installation steps. Thoughts, comments, problems, solutions, someone else already done or doing this? N -- 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
Re: Having PHP generate a PDF
Hi Yves, I've used wkhtmltoxdoc for a number of PDF generation tasks in the past. I'd be surprised if you can't do what you need, check it out here:- * http://madalgo.au.dk/~jakobt/wkhtmltoxdoc/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-doc.html Cheers, N On Jan 3, 10:45 am, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my problem. I would like to have PHP generate a PDF 8.5 x 11. This is the rough format of the PDF: http://bin.cakephp.org/view/2006656317 But here is the kicker, say that those columns that hold data are much longer, say they span 2 pages. On the 2nd page, I would like to repeat the Header, Title 1, Title 2 and Title 3. Can this be done dynamically and programmatically? Does anyone have an example or a source that demonstrates this? Sample code would be very welcome :-) . A point in the right direction would also be very appreciated. This example is not CakePHP specific, but I would like some input on how to do this. Any past experience that you would recommend? Can -- what I described -- be done in CakePHP? -- 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
Re: CakePHP 1.3.7 released
Hi Mark - loads and loads of kudos for the ever continuing progress of CakePHP - it's a framework I enjoy immensely. Following on with the comments about comments for documentation:- Leave a comment with your thoughts on the proposed documentation changes. Ability to download in other formats is important, agreed. Does Sphinx support the ability to do the following (as we have in the current cookbook, but I don't see in the Python /Django docs): - ability for users to comment on the sections? I hate to say this in public, but the comments on the book have not been successful in my eyes. They are filled with incorrect information, misleading information and content that should have been edits instead. Ouch (well kinda) User contributed comments are a double edged sword I have no doubt, comments get made, they may be wrong and no one really has time to monitor or catch errors and poorly crafted code suggestions. On the flip side, user comments are routinely a valuable resource when trying to work stuff out. Consider what many of us do when facing a particular problem, we Google it to see if someone out there has already solved the given problem or something related to it. If you can't find a ready built piece of code you may often find hints, ideas and techniques that set you off on your way. Consider two examples where comments work very well and are particularly powerful:- * http://php.net/manual/en * http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/ Are they perfect? No. Are they enormously helpful, very often yes! I doubt there is any perfect solution when it comes to API/Framework documentation like this, but loosing an _easy_ and _central_ place to communicate and share ideas with others about methods and functions feels like a terrible thing to loose - it's such fertile ground... Is there a way we can continue the search for a documentation setup for CakePHP that includes comments? Regards, NdJ -- 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
Re: CakePHP 1.3.7 released
On Jan 22, 12:23 am, mark_story mark.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 21, 7:12 am, NdJ nicholas.dej...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark - loads and loads of kudos for the ever continuing progress of CakePHP - it's a framework I enjoy immensely. Following on with the comments about comments for documentation:- Leave a comment with your thoughts on the proposed documentation changes. Ability to download in other formats is important, agreed. Does Sphinx support the ability to do the following (as we have in the current cookbook, but I don't see in the Python /Django docs): - ability for users to comment on the sections? I hate to say this in public, but the comments on the book have not been successful in my eyes. They are filled with incorrect information, misleading information and content that should have been edits instead. Ouch (well kinda) User contributed comments are a double edged sword I have no doubt, comments get made, they may be wrong and no one really has time to monitor or catch errors and poorly crafted code suggestions. On the flip side, user comments are routinely a valuable resource when trying to work stuff out. Consider what many of us do when facing a particular problem, we Google it to see if someone out there has already solved the given problem or something related to it. If you can't find a ready built piece of code you may often find hints, ideas and techniques that set you off on your way. Consider two examples where comments work very well and are particularly powerful:- *http://php.net/manual/en *http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/ Are they perfect? No. Are they enormously helpful, very often yes! I doubt there is any perfect solution when it comes to API/Framework documentation like this, but loosing an _easy_ and _central_ place to communicate and share ideas with others about methods and functions feels like a terrible thing to loose - it's such fertile ground... Is there a way we can continue the search for a documentation setup for CakePHP that includes comments? Regards, NdJ Comments are a fertile ground, and sometimes they are fertile for infestation of incorrect information. Unfortunately, the large bulk of comments in the book are this kind. It pains me to say that, as originally the hope was that they would be as useful as the comments on php.net. But sadly it just never happened. I'd also like to point That's a real pain. I can imagine the head-twist it puts on the dedicated individuals who go to enormous efforts to create documentation in the first place. To see comments attached to their documentation that might be wrong, misleading or perhaps even nasty is not at all enjoyable. Not to mention the time sink. Uck! out that there are _numerous_ documentation sets that have no comments, and they seem to service their communities perfectly well. Yes, fair enough - RubyDoc is a great example of this. For me though, the fact that RubyDoc does not have comments drives me crazy and I'm forever Googling elsewhere to find people talking about stuff to discover more information. I'm guessing I'm not the only one doing this (I could be wrong!) By we, I hope you mean you. If you feel the current suggestion is not up to snuff, then please suggest a better one. Using sphinx doesn't occlude the possibility of using disqus for comments. jQuery does this for their documentation and it works. -Mark Never realized the comments at jQuery were driven with Disqus, I like the comments setup there, it's not dis-similar than php.net or dev.mysql.com. So yes, implementing comments in that manner seems like it would answer the call for comments functionality quite well. It also follows on with the theme of outsourcing non-core effort reducing the time sink. My bad, using the word we in my earlier comment I did not mean to imply ownership. Can I suggest something better than the Disqus approach? Probably not. Disqus certainly looks to be very quick to implement and shifts the burden of feature maintenance off your plate, not sure how you could do better. Regards, NdJ -- 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
Scaling question - separating model reads and writes across databases
Hi,
I wonder if anyone out there has done the following in a production
situation that they could provide feedback on?
/app/config/database.php:-
$read = array('host'='127.0.0.1');
$write = array('host'='1.2.3.4');
/app/app_model.php:-
beforeFind() { $this-useDbConfig = 'read'; }
beforeSave() { $this-useDbConfig = 'write'; }
beforeDelete() { $this-useDbConfig = 'write'; }
Then use database replication from the write host back to the read
host(s) thus deploying a classic master-write, multi-read database
setup.
It *seems* like this technique should work quite nicely and would
permit easy scaling but are there any CakePHP related gotchas I'm not
aware of?
Looking at the Model class source indicates the field() and read()
methods use Model-find() but if I'm not mistaken (and I could be!) I
don't believe those Model-find() calls will get passed through my
child beforeFind() callback and they could thus miss a $this-
useDbConfig adjustment. Perhaps the answer this that is to just go
ahead and overload all find, save, delete, read, field and query
methods in AppModel and insert a $this-useDbConfig statement before
passing back to their respective parents.
Anyway, has anyone got feedback or experiance doing this with CakePHP
in this way? Did it work for you?
Cheers,
N
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Named cache config setting from views
Hi,
I've bumped into some unexpected behavior when pulling cache data
using a named cache config setting from within a view.
For example:-
In core.php I have something like this:-
$cache_method = 'Apc'
Cache::config('short',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='300'));
Cache::config('medium',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='900'));
Cache::config('long',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='3600'));
Cache::config('default',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='180'));
Which works great when I use those config names for Cache::read and
Cache::write within models and controllers.
Unfortunately when I use those Cache methods using config names within
a view I get a cache miss which when you are trying to wrap a
requestAction() is less than ideal -- I note that the object does get
written to the cache as I can see it (with APC info) but it seems
calling it back fails.
But here is the important twist -- if I use the Cache config name
'default' (our just leave it out) all works as expected.
Am I missing something special I need to do in order to cache data
within a view or is this an issue?
Ahh, and I additionally note that app/tmp/cache/views is becoming
populated with elements that I've called via $this-
element('foobar',array('cache'=array('key'='foobar','time'='+10
minutes'))) -- I was expecting to find those in the memory cache.
Cheers,
N
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Re: Named cache config setting from views
I already have a response for my own post here.
It turns out that in the Cache::read within my view I was not naming
the cache configuration, that is to say I was doing:-
$data = Cache::read('cache_name');
I've discovered that I needed to do:-
$data = Cache::read('cache_name','config_name');
When the original data was inserted into the cache with:-
Cache::write('cache_name',$data,'config_name');
I *suspect* the problem may have something to do with the fact that
within my application I'm calling Cache::read and Cache::write with
different configurations on the same request and there is some
internal Cache:: object variable that is getting set and remembered
within that request -- anyway just a guess.
Anyway the lesson is to be sure to name your cache configurations I
guess.
N
On May 18, 11:56 am, NdJ nicholas.dej...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've bumped into some unexpected behavior when pulling cache data
using a named cache config setting from within a view.
For example:-
In core.php I have something like this:-
$cache_method = 'Apc'
Cache::config('short',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='300'));
Cache::config('medium',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='900'));
Cache::config('long',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='3600'));
Cache::config('default',array('engine'=
$cache_method,'duration'='180'));
Which works great when I use those config names for Cache::read and
Cache::write within models and controllers.
Unfortunately when I use those Cache methods using config names within
a view I get a cache miss which when you are trying to wrap a
requestAction() is less than ideal -- I note that the object does get
written to the cache as I can see it (with APC info) but it seems
calling it back fails.
But here is the important twist -- if I use the Cache config name
'default' (our just leave it out) all works as expected.
Am I missing something special I need to do in order to cache data
within a view or is this an issue?
Ahh, and I additionally note that app/tmp/cache/views is becoming
populated with elements that I've called via
$this-element('foobar',array('cache'=array('key'='foobar','time'='+10
minutes'))) -- I was expecting to find those in the memory cache.
Cheers,
N
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Re: DebugKit
Try adding Session to your controller components -- I just happened to notice your same issue when I removed Session from my controller components. N On Apr 30, 7:24 am, Ed Propsner crotchf...@gmail.com wrote: Could anyone tell me where I went wrong with debugkit? The installation was straightforward enough that it seemed impossible to screw up. Anyhow, it returns all the data that would be expected but it also returns a ton of warnings, ie: *Warning*: Missing argument 2 for DebugKitDebugger::_output(), It repeats this error for args 3, 4, 5, etc. then starts displaying notices, ie: *Notice*: Undefined variable: kontext It repeats this process several times over. Also, I can only get it work if I have debug to set on 2, debug 1 returns all the errors I just described and nothing else. Did I screw something up in Cake to make debugkit freak out or am I botching the installation of debugkit? Thanks, -Ed Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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 group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en 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 this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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?hl=en
Database connects without any queries
Hi, Recently I've noticed that CakePHP seems to cause a database connect for each page load (when the controller uses a model) even if the page does not perform any database query. On the surface of things this might make sense. My concern is that I'm seeing database connects even when the data obtained through my controller is clearly coming from cache. I was not too concerned about this until I happened to be doing some database performance work and discovered that my database is spending most of its time dealing with connect requests. I've taken a quick look into the CakePHP source and there seems to be an autoConnect parameter in the __construct() method of the DboSource class that at least sounds like the kind of thing I want to tweak, but I've been unable to work out how get at this properly. Does anyone know how to stop Cake connecting to the database when it does not need to in this case? My setup in brief:- * CakePHP 1.3 RC3. * mysqli * persistent database connections * using the mk-query-digest tool to analyze database query performance at the wire (very useful) - http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-query-digest.html Cheers, N 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 this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
Re: Database connects without any queries
Hi Cricket, Yes debug is set to zero - quite literally I get a connect followed by a quit while the controller retrieves its data via cache. N On Mar 30, 10:06 pm, cricket zijn.digi...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have debug set to 0? Cake sends a bunch of DESCRIBE statements otherwise. Is this what you're seeing? On Mar 30, 5:23 am, NdJ nicholas.dej...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently I've noticed that CakePHP seems to cause a database connect for each page load (when the controller uses a model) even if the page does not perform any database query. On the surface of things this might make sense. My concern is that I'm seeing database connects even when the data obtained through my controller is clearly coming from cache. I was not too concerned about this until I happened to be doing some database performance work and discovered that my database is spending most of its time dealing with connect requests. I've taken a quick look into the CakePHP source and there seems to be an autoConnect parameter in the __construct() method of the DboSource class that at least sounds like the kind of thing I want to tweak, but I've been unable to work out how get at this properly. Does anyone know how to stop Cake connecting to the database when it does not need to in this case? My setup in brief:- * CakePHP 1.3 RC3. * mysqli * persistent database connections * using the mk-query-digest tool to analyze database query performance at the wire (very useful) -http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-query-digest.html Cheers, N 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 this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
Curious behavior in the ACL Component Acts As a Requester with Cake 1.3
Hi,
I'm fairly comfortable with the CakePHP ACL mechanism even though she
can be a little tough to manage at first. I have however come by some
curious behavior using CakePHP 1.3 and the suggested Acts As a
Requester code here:-
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1547/Acts-As-a-Requester
My problem is this:-
When a new user record is created $this-data correctly contains a
value for [User][group_id] - however if you are just updating a field
within a user record $this-data will not contain any value for [User]
[group_id] and thus code suggested in the book will return a null.
This hence sets the corresponding users ARO record to have a NULL
parent_id -- ouch.
At this stage I don't know if the problem is my code or if it is a
genuine problem with the suggested code in the docs. The example code
has been this way for quite some time so I'm finding it hard be
believe I'm the first to notice and report this.
I've resolved by adjusting the code in parentNode() in the manner
below.
Anyway, before I go ahead and attempt to adjust the online docs for a
topic that is already a challange to understand can anyone else
confirm/deny the problem I'm seeing here? Do note that my Group
model is named UserGroup and not just Group.
Cheers,
N
/**
* parentNode
*
* @return mixed
*/
function parentNode() {
if (!$this-id empty($this-data)) {
return null;
}
if (empty($this-data) or !isset($this-data['User']
['user_group_id'])) {
$data = $this-read('user_group_id');
}
else {
$data = $this-data;
}
return array('UserGroup' = array('id' = $data['User']
['user_group_id']));
}
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