Re: Components vs Helpers vs Utilities
I am having difficulty thinking of a time when I would need the same function to be called in my model and my view. On my current project, I am also needing to manipulate my dates as I have a non standard way of saving them in the database. What I have done is manipulated them in the controller using a Component so these functions can used in different controllers. I get the data from the model, use the functions in my component to manipulate the data and then pass that to the view, which displays it as is. Is that similar to what you are trying or am I misunderstanding your goals? ~Michael -- Like Us on FaceBook 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.
Re: Components vs Helpers vs Utilities
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:53 PM, tron tken...@gmail.com wrote:
Im trying to wrap my head around utilzing some functionality at all levels
of MVC. Right now, I'm writing a component that performs several date
functions for my app (the date utility is insufficient for what Im doing).
The problem is I need the these functions in both my models and views as
well. I'd imagine writing my own Utility is the best option as it can be
used anywhere but they seem off limits as they are only contained within
the Lib. I also cant find any information on writing a Utility. Yes, I could
just go write one and add it to Lib/Utilities but I'm looking for some
feedback on this issue as I've faced it several times. If you need to share
functionality between all layers of the MVC, is using utilities the only way
to do it without having to load a component/helper/behavior on the fly?
If CakeTime doesn't have what you want you could extend it.
app/Lib/Utility/MyTime.php :
App::uses('CakeTime', 'Utility');
class MyTime extends CakeTime {
public function foo($bar = null) {
}
}
In your controller/Model/View :
App::uses('MyTime', 'Utility');
...
$foo = MyTime::foo($bar);
But if all you want/need is a plain function (ie. no class) you could
just put in bootstrap.php
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Re: components
yes It is. But I dunno why the behaviour is different. In my app it's like the override of components happens and only the 'local' components it is available. What's do u think about? thanks in advance. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, John Andersen j.andersen...@gmail.comwrote: I am not sure what you asked for, but I will give it a try anyway :) If you define a component in the AppController, then the component will be available for all Controllers. If you define a component in a specific Controller, then the component will only be available in that Controller. The components defined in the AppController will also be available to the Controller. Was this what you were asking for? Enjoy, John On Jun 10, 4:39 pm, emanuele emanuel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellows, I want to share same components between controllers and I want some local to single controller. If I re-define $components locally to the controller, cake performs the override or the array_merge of the global and local components variable? thanks in advance -- Emanuele Gringeri Computer Engineer University of Pisa Be my mirror, my sword and shield 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.comcake-php%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comFor more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -- Emanuele Gringeri Computer Engineer University of Pisa Be my mirror, my sword and shield 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
Re: components
Please show the code on how you define the components in both the AppController and in a Controller in which you have this issue! Enjoy, John On Jun 10, 4:55 pm, emanuele emanuel...@gmail.com wrote: yes It is. But I dunno why the behaviour is different. In my app it's like the override of components happens and only the 'local' components it is available. What's do u think about? thanks in advance. [snip] 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
Re: components
thanks dude. it works. damn it.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM, euromark dereurom...@googlemail.comwrote:
its
var $components = array('Session');
and everything works fine (cake1.3)
On 10 Jun., 17:27, emanuele emanuel...@gmail.com wrote:
For instance:
class AppController extends Controller {
var $components = array('Cookie', 'Email');
...
}
class DummiesController extends AppController {
var $components = 'Session';
function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
}
}
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:22 PM, John Andersen j.andersen...@gmail.com
wrote:
Please show the code on how you define the components in both the
AppController and in a Controller in which you have this issue!
Enjoy,
John
On Jun 10, 4:55 pm, emanuele emanuel...@gmail.com wrote:
yes It is. But I dunno why the behaviour is different. In my app it's
like
the override of components happens and
only the 'local' components it is available. What's do u think about?
thanks in advance.
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Re: Components and Helpers route wrong
All my routes just route my static pages to the Pages controller. There is no issue with the Routing.admin (it is admin as it should be to route my admin area). Is there not some setting for the Router that decides to include or not include the app folder name in the URL? To clarify, /iny/ is my /app/ folder. On Sep 4, 7:35 pm, Jaime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try disabling all your routes in /config/routes.php. Also, check the value of 'Routing.admin' in /config/core.php. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components and Helpers route wrong
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Re: Components, how many is too many?
I just tried to create components that inherit from a common component
base class, and found that there were problems loading components --
especially when those components also use other components. It wasn't
that easy -- I'm not sure how you can load/declare components
dynamically in the var $controller attributes since that is static to
the class.
if I'm doing it wrong, I'd love to have someone point out a better
way. It there a reason why subclassing controllers works better than
subclassing components?
In my example above, my components are for importing photos from
Flickr/Facebook/etc, one each. And it always seems that most of the
code deals with either managing Sessions/Cookies/authentication keys
at those third party sites, or other state related issues like setting
variables for views, or testing for different form values before
sending the data to the model.
On Apr 27, 8:32 pm, djiize [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and that's where MVC and OOP are very useful
MVC because:
I'm pretty sure some parts of your components can be turned in Model/
Behavior/Datasource (gData, Flicker data access, ... are Model's
logic)
OOP because:
why your ServicesController loads all components when it only needs
some?
Maybe you should separate in several controllers that inherit
ServicesController (YahooServicesController,
GoogleServicesController, ...)
That way, each sub-ServicesController has its own $components list.
Dont' forget that in CakePHP, there's still PHP ;-)
On 27 avr, 10:31, Sam Sherlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you have the option of importing them when you need and keeping generall
required (heavily used comps in the controllers)
*App::import*('*Component*'.$name)
same goes for models etc
at least thats as I understand.
2008/4/27 mixersoft [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am really wrestling with this one and wanted to know if others have
established a best practice.
My controllers are getting to be pretty big, and different actions may
need different components. Also, in the name of DRY, I have a
'services' controller that performs a lot of standard utility
functions -- which may need differnt components depending on who
called it. (i.e. Flickr component for Flickr stuff, Facebook component
for FB, Google component for Google, etc.)
It really seems like Cake wants me to include all compoments in the
controller var $compoments class attribute, so they can all be easily
referenced as a class variable. But I'm looking at my 'services'
controller, and that could very well have a lot of very large
components.
I've tried to use App::import('Compoment', component) to load
components on the fly, but when I do so I can't seem to access any
components which those components need to use. (see post on Component
Polymorphism).
What do people do? Is the extra overhead so nominal that I should just
include everything plus the kitchen sink? Is Cake smart enough only to
actually load a component when it is actually required? Has anyone
else figured out how to properly load components on the fly?
TIA.
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Re: Components, how many is too many?
You're right, it was a mistake to say ServicesController, etc...
I would say ServicesComponent, etc...
To load components in a component with $components member:
http://api.cakephp.org/1.2/class_component.html#1ffa81df593c314ae23143bb0834c8bc
To dynamically load components in a controller with
App::import('Component', 'YourComponent')
http://api.cakephp.org/1.2/class_app.html#2a84eb340fe947c7fdc753c3bf8cd053
On 29 avr, 14:49, mixersoft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just tried to create components that inherit from a common component
base class, and found that there were problems loading components --
especially when those components also use other components. It wasn't
that easy -- I'm not sure how you can load/declare components
dynamically in the var $controller attributes since that is static to
the class.
if I'm doing it wrong, I'd love to have someone point out a better
way. It there a reason why subclassing controllers works better than
subclassing components?
In my example above, my components are for importing photos from
Flickr/Facebook/etc, one each. And it always seems that most of the
code deals with either managing Sessions/Cookies/authentication keys
at those third party sites, or other state related issues like setting
variables for views, or testing for different form values before
sending the data to the model.
On Apr 27, 8:32 pm, djiize [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and that's where MVC and OOP are very useful
MVC because:
I'm pretty sure some parts of your components can be turned in Model/
Behavior/Datasource (gData, Flicker data access, ... are Model's
logic)
OOP because:
why your ServicesController loads all components when it only needs
some?
Maybe you should separate in several controllers that inherit
ServicesController (YahooServicesController,
GoogleServicesController, ...)
That way, each sub-ServicesController has its own $components list.
Dont' forget that in CakePHP, there's still PHP ;-)
On 27 avr, 10:31, Sam Sherlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you have the option of importing them when you need and keeping generall
required (heavily used comps in the controllers)
*App::import*('*Component*'.$name)
same goes for models etc
at least thats as I understand.
2008/4/27 mixersoft [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am really wrestling with this one and wanted to know if others have
established a best practice.
My controllers are getting to be pretty big, and different actions may
need different components. Also, in the name of DRY, I have a
'services' controller that performs a lot of standard utility
functions -- which may need differnt components depending on who
called it. (i.e. Flickr component for Flickr stuff, Facebook component
for FB, Google component for Google, etc.)
It really seems like Cake wants me to include all compoments in the
controller var $compoments class attribute, so they can all be easily
referenced as a class variable. But I'm looking at my 'services'
controller, and that could very well have a lot of very large
components.
I've tried to use App::import('Compoment', component) to load
components on the fly, but when I do so I can't seem to access any
components which those components need to use. (see post on Component
Polymorphism).
What do people do? Is the extra overhead so nominal that I should just
include everything plus the kitchen sink? Is Cake smart enough only to
actually load a component when it is actually required? Has anyone
else figured out how to properly load components on the fly?
TIA.
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Re: Components, how many is too many?
On Apr 27, 1:32 pm, djiize [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont' forget that in CakePHP, there's still PHP ;-) That should be the next CakePHP t-shirt print! I need to be reminded of this so often I should print this and stick it to the top of my screen. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups CakePHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components, how many is too many?
you have the option of importing them when you need and keeping generall
required (heavily used comps in the controllers)
*App::import*('*Component*'.$name)
same goes for models etc
at least thats as I understand.
2008/4/27 mixersoft [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am really wrestling with this one and wanted to know if others have
established a best practice.
My controllers are getting to be pretty big, and different actions may
need different components. Also, in the name of DRY, I have a
'services' controller that performs a lot of standard utility
functions -- which may need differnt components depending on who
called it. (i.e. Flickr component for Flickr stuff, Facebook component
for FB, Google component for Google, etc.)
It really seems like Cake wants me to include all compoments in the
controller var $compoments class attribute, so they can all be easily
referenced as a class variable. But I'm looking at my 'services'
controller, and that could very well have a lot of very large
components.
I've tried to use App::import('Compoment', component) to load
components on the fly, but when I do so I can't seem to access any
components which those components need to use. (see post on Component
Polymorphism).
What do people do? Is the extra overhead so nominal that I should just
include everything plus the kitchen sink? Is Cake smart enough only to
actually load a component when it is actually required? Has anyone
else figured out how to properly load components on the fly?
TIA.
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Re: Components, how many is too many?
and that's where MVC and OOP are very useful
MVC because:
I'm pretty sure some parts of your components can be turned in Model/
Behavior/Datasource (gData, Flicker data access, ... are Model's
logic)
OOP because:
why your ServicesController loads all components when it only needs
some?
Maybe you should separate in several controllers that inherit
ServicesController (YahooServicesController,
GoogleServicesController, ...)
That way, each sub-ServicesController has its own $components list.
Dont' forget that in CakePHP, there's still PHP ;-)
On 27 avr, 10:31, Sam Sherlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you have the option of importing them when you need and keeping generall
required (heavily used comps in the controllers)
*App::import*('*Component*'.$name)
same goes for models etc
at least thats as I understand.
2008/4/27 mixersoft [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am really wrestling with this one and wanted to know if others have
established a best practice.
My controllers are getting to be pretty big, and different actions may
need different components. Also, in the name of DRY, I have a
'services' controller that performs a lot of standard utility
functions -- which may need differnt components depending on who
called it. (i.e. Flickr component for Flickr stuff, Facebook component
for FB, Google component for Google, etc.)
It really seems like Cake wants me to include all compoments in the
controller var $compoments class attribute, so they can all be easily
referenced as a class variable. But I'm looking at my 'services'
controller, and that could very well have a lot of very large
components.
I've tried to use App::import('Compoment', component) to load
components on the fly, but when I do so I can't seem to access any
components which those components need to use. (see post on Component
Polymorphism).
What do people do? Is the extra overhead so nominal that I should just
include everything plus the kitchen sink? Is Cake smart enough only to
actually load a component when it is actually required? Has anyone
else figured out how to properly load components on the fly?
TIA.
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Re: Components loading components
ok, i sourced the problem down to...
1) the subsomponent does get loaded.
2) the reference to subcomponents is miss calculated if a sub
component is a PluginName.ComponentName... It tries to make the object
$PluginName.ComponentName, but natuarally in the $loaded array it only
exists as $ComponentName, so the reference gets lost.
So, this is what lines 75 - 85 (component.php) did read
-
foreach (array_keys($loaded) as $component) {
$tempComponent = $loaded[$component];
if (isset($tempComponent-components) is_array($tempComponent-
components)) {
foreach ($tempComponent-components as $subComponent) {
$this-controller-{$component}-{$subComponent} =
$loaded[$subComponent];
}
}
if (is_callable(array($tempComponent, 'initialize'))) {
$tempComponent-initialize($controller);
}
}
Which is now
foreach (array_keys($loaded) as $component) {
$tempComponent = $loaded[$component];
if (isset($tempComponent-components) is_array($tempComponent-
components)) {
foreach ($tempComponent-components as $subComponent) {
//needs to split the component if its a Plugin
if (strpos($subComponent, '.') !== false) {
list($tempPlugin, $subComponent) = explode('.',
$subComponent);
}
$this-controller-{$component}-{$subComponent} =
$loaded[$subComponent];
}
}
if (is_callable(array($tempComponent, 'initialize'))) {
$tempComponent-initialize($controller);
}
}
So this fixed the problem should I post a bug ticket?
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Re: Components loading components
ps. i;m running latest 1.2 release. On Jan 12, 4:08 pm, lordG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I have a problem happening with the with plugin components. I have a plugin called cms, which holds a component called iAuthenticate. This component in term requires another component called iLanguage. Both these components are located within the plugins components directory. Now if I call the component when running within the plugins scope of controllers, the authenticate component loads 100% with the language component too. However, if the authenticate component gets required outside of the plugin scope, like with a pages plugin, it loads the authenticate component, but does not find or load the language component. I am sure this has something to do with how cake is loading component components and the directory in which it defaults to. Any ideas? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components loading components
If its a verifiable, repeatable bug (and it actually is a bug, not
something by design), go for it. :)
On Jan 12, 8:43 am, lordG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok, i sourced the problem down to...
1) the subsomponent does get loaded.
2) the reference to subcomponents is miss calculated if a sub
component is a PluginName.ComponentName... It tries to make the object
$PluginName.ComponentName, but natuarally in the $loaded array it only
exists as $ComponentName, so the reference gets lost.
So, this is what lines 75 - 85 (component.php) did read
-
foreach (array_keys($loaded) as $component) {
$tempComponent = $loaded[$component];
if (isset($tempComponent-components)
is_array($tempComponent-components)) {
foreach ($tempComponent-components as $subComponent) {
$this-controller-{$component}-{$subComponent} =
$loaded[$subComponent];
}
}
if (is_callable(array($tempComponent, 'initialize'))) {
$tempComponent-initialize($controller);
}}
Which is now
foreach (array_keys($loaded) as $component) {
$tempComponent = $loaded[$component];
if (isset($tempComponent-components)
is_array($tempComponent-components)) {
foreach ($tempComponent-components as $subComponent) {
//needs to split the component if its a Plugin
if (strpos($subComponent, '.') !== false) {
list($tempPlugin, $subComponent) =
explode('.', $subComponent);
}
$this-controller-{$component}-{$subComponent} =
$loaded[$subComponent];
}
}
if (is_callable(array($tempComponent, 'initialize'))) {
$tempComponent-initialize($controller);
}}
So this fixed the problem should I post a bug ticket?
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Re: Components array used opposed to extends?
Thank you.
On Nov 2, 3:10 pm, AD7six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 1, 2:46 pm, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have several component classes that need to extend a parent class.
Which is the correct approach:
class Availability extends Object
{
var $components = array('Parent');
OR:
class Availability extends Parent
{
Thanks in advance.
It's up to you, depending on whether you want to use the functionality
of the component named Parent or inherit it with some modifications.
ensure that the Parent component is loaded if you do the latter.
hth,
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Re: Components array used opposed to extends?
On Nov 1, 2:46 pm, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have several component classes that need to extend a parent class.
Which is the correct approach:
class Availability extends Object
{
var $components = array('Parent');
OR:
class Availability extends Parent
{
Thanks in advance.
It's up to you, depending on whether you want to use the functionality
of the component named Parent or inherit it with some modifications.
ensure that the Parent component is loaded if you do the latter.
hth,
AD
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Re: Components, Controllers y Elements
Hi, first of I think it's correct to talk about models since models are an abstraction for the tables. Second i think you can use loadModel() to get access to a model that's not in the uses variabel, but you will have to instantiate the object your self, $model = new Model(); Ps. Can anyone plz comment me on this if it's wrong? On Oct 19, 7:07 pm, Pinholecam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for some answers to my problems but after a couple of hours of searching, I'll answer that. a) I would need to query differents models form a component. How to do it? b) Looking at the manual it seems that each model has one controller and one controller has one model. In addition, if I have some kind of assosiation between models, for one controller it's possible to query the other models associated. But if I don't have any association? How can I query other models? (When I talk about models, maybe I should talk about tables). I assume that it's possible to query directly by $this-Mymodel-query(), but I would use Cake DB functions. c) Elements: this are pieces of code(view) that repeat in a part of your site, so in order to not to repeat it. I've also seen that it's not possible to query from elements directly to the database, but you get information from the function set of your controller. If the query and its bussiness logic is more than one line, you're also duplicating code, so the answer is: can you type a function from a component that sets the information to the view? So to set the information, just call the component's funtion from a controller/action. Thanks to all the help u can give me. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components, Controllers y Elements
I can at least help with b) Controllers can have access to many, unrelated models, by having more than one item in the uses array. Good luck with the other stuff! On Oct 19, 2:07 pm, Pinholecam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for some answers to my problems but after a couple of hours of searching, I'll answer that. a) I would need to query differents models form a component. How to do it? b) Looking at the manual it seems that each model has one controller and one controller has one model. In addition, if I have some kind of assosiation between models, for one controller it's possible to query the other models associated. But if I don't have any association? How can I query other models? (When I talk about models, maybe I should talk about tables). I assume that it's possible to query directly by $this-Mymodel-query(), but I would use Cake DB functions. c) Elements: this are pieces of code(view) that repeat in a part of your site, so in order to not to repeat it. I've also seen that it's not possible to query from elements directly to the database, but you get information from the function set of your controller. If the query and its bussiness logic is more than one line, you're also duplicating code, so the answer is: can you type a function from a component that sets the information to the view? So to set the information, just call the component's funtion from a controller/action. Thanks to all the help u can give me. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components, Controllers y Elements
To make that concrete...
class UsersController extends AppController {
var $uses = array('Muppet', 'Fraggle', 'Smurf');
}
This is covered in the Cake manual too:
http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/controllers
Wayne
On 10/20/07, the_woodsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can at least help with b)
Controllers can have access to many, unrelated models, by having more
than one item in the uses array.
Good luck with the other stuff!
On Oct 19, 2:07 pm, Pinholecam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been looking for some answers to my problems but after a couple
of hours of searching, I'll answer that.
a) I would need to query differents models form a component. How to
do it?
b) Looking at the manual it seems that each model has one controller
and one controller has one model. In addition, if I have some kind of
assosiation between models, for one controller it's possible to query
the other models associated. But if I don't have any association? How
can I query other models? (When I talk about models, maybe I should
talk about tables). I assume that it's possible to query directly by
$this-Mymodel-query(), but I would use Cake DB functions.
c) Elements: this are pieces of code(view) that repeat in a part of
your site, so in order to not to repeat it. I've also seen that it's
not possible to query from elements directly to the database, but you
get information from the function set of your controller. If the query
and its bussiness logic is more than one line, you're also duplicating
code, so the answer is: can you type a function from a component that
sets the information to the view? So to set the information, just call
the component's funtion from a controller/action.
Thanks to all the help u can give me.
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Re: Components and Database
Thanks.
I have ended up doing the following using CakePHP 1.2.
I am using the getModel function that I created in a new common
components that I found on ThinkingPHP.org.
Then I created my Tracker component with one function Add that adds
the action and if the user is not in session creates the user record
as well and setting the user session.
I call this function in a Controller:
//track
$this-Tracker-add('ProductTags', $source, $section, $taglist);
Voila!
Code below...I am not sure this is a good practice !
?php
class trackerComponent extends Object
{
var $controller = true;
var $components = array('Common', 'Session');
function startup($controller)
{
// This method takes a reference to the controller which is
loading it.
// Perform controller initialization here.
$this-controller = $controller;
}
function add($type, $parameter1 = '', $parameter2 = '',
$parameter3 = '')
{
if (!$this-Session-check('User'))
{
//create user entry
$newuser = $this-Common-getModel('User');
$data['User']['ipaddress'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$newuser-save($data['User']);
$this-Session-write('User', $newuser-id);
}
// add new action
$newaction = $this-Common-getModel('Action');
$data['Action']['user_id'] = $this-Session-read('User');
$data['Action']['type'] = $type;
$data['Action']['parameter1'] = $parameter1;
$data['Action']['parameter2'] = $parameter2;
$data['Action']['parameter3'] = $parameter3;
$newaction-save($data['Action']);
}
}
?
?php
class CommonComponent extends Object
{
var $controller = true;
function getModel($model)
{
// Make sure our $modelClass name is camelized
$modelClass = Inflector::camelize($model);
// If the Model class does not exist and we cannot load
it
if (!class_exists($modelClass) !
loadModel($modelClass))
{
// Can't pass false directly because only
variables can be passed via reference
$tmp = false;
// Return false
return $tmp;
}
// The $modelKey is the underscored $modelClass name for
the ClassRegistry
$modelKey = Inflector::underscore($modelClass);
// If the ClassRegistry holds a reference to our Model
if (ClassRegistry::isKeySet($modelKey))
{
// Then make this our $ModelObj
$ModelObj =
ClassRegistry::getObject($modelKey);
}
else
{
// If no reference to our Model was found in
trhe ClassRegistry, create our own one
$ModelObj = new $modelClass();
// And add it to the class registry for the next
time
ClassRegistry::addObject($modelKey, $ModelObj);
}
// Return the reference to our Model object
return $ModelObj;
}
}
?
On Apr 14, 1:31 am, Joshua Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps you could define a method on app/app_controller.php (class
AppController) that will store the appropriate information, and have
every action call that method ($this-method). Alternately, there may
be some method on AppController you could override (and pass to
parent) that actually calls the controller action methods.
On Apr 13, 10:04 am, Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello -
I am kind of new to Cake and I am unsure about how to structure a
piece of development I need to do.
I want to create a Tracker feature whereby I will track users actions
on my website. It is fairly simple:
- when a user first arrive on the site, I record his IP in a session
and on a user able (no authentication)
- subsequently each time the user perform an action on the site
(navigate through pages) I will record for that user an action : type
of action , parameters for the action. For example the user selected a
Tag to be displayed (action = select tag) and the tag is
Sun (parameter = sun).
I have 2 tables to implement this: user (id, ip adress...) and action
(id, action, parameter, time, user_id).
The user has many action.
I was thinking of creating acomponentto implement this that I can
call with all the controllers. Each controllers will add actions to
the tables.
Thecomponentwill need to have access (essentially Write) to the two
tables.
My questions are:
- how can I include a model (for my 2 tables) in acomponentAND is
this the right thing to do?
- is creating acomponentthe right solution?
Many thanks!
-Vincent
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Perhaps you could define a method on app/app_controller.php (class AppController) that will store the appropriate information, and have every action call that method ($this-method). Alternately, there may be some method on AppController you could override (and pass to parent) that actually calls the controller action methods. On Apr 13, 10:04 am, Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello - I am kind of new to Cake and I am unsure about how to structure a piece of development I need to do. I want to create a Tracker feature whereby I will track users actions on my website. It is fairly simple: - when a user first arrive on the site, I record his IP in a session and on a user able (no authentication) - subsequently each time the user perform an action on the site (navigate through pages) I will record for that user an action : type of action , parameters for the action. For example the user selected a Tag to be displayed (action = select tag) and the tag is Sun (parameter = sun). I have 2 tables to implement this: user (id, ip adress...) and action (id, action, parameter, time, user_id). The user has many action. I was thinking of creating a component to implement this that I can call with all the controllers. Each controllers will add actions to the tables. The component will need to have access (essentially Write) to the two tables. My questions are: - how can I include a model (for my 2 tables) in a component AND is this the right thing to do? - is creating a component the right solution? Many thanks! -Vincent --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components not loading
I've don't remember overriding the __construct method and I just double-checked to confirm that. :-P Tried printing out the contents of $this-components and all I got was Session. Next I tried declaring the components array in AppController and see if that changes anything. It did. No more errors from PHP but then I find that the Session component is loaded and then the components in my declared array gets loaded too - the Session component is added twice. And the weirdness doesn't stop there, I suddenly get a missing model error too, even though I've declared the Uses array to use other models - I created my own Pages controller - but Cake is now looking for a Pages model (which doesn't exist). Is it possible that a missing model DB table is causing this? I don't have direct access to my server and my server sysad is sick and missing so I can't check that right now. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components not loading
I wondered about that but forgot to directly ask/clarify. If you put code in your app controller that relies on something being present, it would be a *very good* idea to put what it relies upon in the same place ;). I won't argue with you on that but I was hoping that I wouldn't have to load components and helpers in controllers that didn't use 'em. I've moved all of the Component and Helper declarations into AppController and everything is now working as it should as far as I can tell. :-) Many thanks, AD! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components not loading
On 5 abr, 11:03, bit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've don't remember overriding the __construct method and I just double-checked to confirm that. :-P Tried printing out the contents of $this-components and all I got was Session. Next I tried declaring the components array in AppController and see if that changes anything. Hi bit, I wondered about that but forgot to directly ask/clarify. If you put code in your app controller that relies on something being present, it would be a *very good* idea to put what it relies upon in the same place ;). It did. No more errors from PHP but then I find that the Session component is loaded and then the components in my declared array gets loaded too - the Session component is added twice. You don't need to put Session in your own components array (any of them, anywhere). And the weirdness doesn't stop there, I suddenly get a missing model error too, even though I've declared the Uses array to use other models - I created my own Pages controller - but Cake is now looking for a Pages model (which doesn't exist). put in your pages controller var $users = false; or var $uses = null; var $uses = array(); or some other negative permutation (I forget which) that should go away. Is it possible that a missing model DB table is causing this? Doubt it, hth, AD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components not loading
On 4 abr, 10:27, bit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this really weird bug in which my components aren't loading. The really weird thing is that when I remove a hasMany relationship in one of the models, this bug goes away. If cake is about to present you with a missingX error, components aren't loaded. hth, AD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Components not loading
That's what I thought. I guess it'd be good to point out then that I'm
getting this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object
The line it refers to is: (in a private function that's called in
beforeFilter() of AppController)
return $this-Acl-check($user, $aco);
Another way I tested the components was by doing
if(!isset($this-Acl)) debug('No ACL!');
And when I tried it, I got that debug message.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
On Apr 4, 5:15 pm, AD7six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4 abr, 10:27, bit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have this really weird bug in which my components aren't loading.
The really weird thing is that when I remove a hasMany relationship in
one of the models, this bug goes away.
If cake is about to present you with a missingX error, components
aren't loaded.
hth,
AD
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On 4 abr, 12:48, bit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's what I thought. I guess it'd be good to point out then that I'm
getting this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object
The line it refers to is: (in a private function that's called in
beforeFilter() of AppController)
return $this-Acl-check($user, $aco);
Another way I tested the components was by doing
if(!isset($this-Acl)) debug('No ACL!');
And when I tried it, I got that debug message.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I made an error in my previous message, partly due to an assumption on
my part of what you meant. Components are linked to the controller,
but their startup method isn't run for an error.
Have you overriden any __construct methods?
If you just do
echo $this-name.' controller has these components: ;
pr ($this-components);
what do you see when you are getting that error.
It may be caused by having a not-so-recent version of cake, but I
would guess that it doesn't work because you have overridden the
components array in a sub controller, and for reason unknown it isn't
getting merged with the array you are defining in the app controller
(it should, thanks to the work of cake).
Anyway after a bit of debugging I'm sure the cause will come clear.
hth,
AD
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Re: Components
In your component, try this:
?php
class RecentPapersComponent extends Object
{
var $name = 'RecentPapers';
var $controller = true;
function init ($number = 5)
{
$Paper = new Paper;
$data = $Paper-findAll (
null,
null,
'Paper.modified DESC',
$number
);
pr($data); // This is where it will spit out the
contents of the data. If you don't see anything, then you may have
nothing in your database.
$this-controller-set('recentpapers',$data);
}
}
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Re: Components
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