Re: Ingherited models that filter active users/records?

2012-07-23 Thread geste
could be taking the filter logic out of Cake (no always the fastest!) and shifting it to the DB back end. Not quite a stored procedure but maybe same effect. Thanks again! Jim On Saturday, July 21, 2012 7:03:04 AM UTC-7, Ratty wrote: On 20/07/12 17:44, geste wrote: I have a business system

Ingherited models that filter active users/records?

2012-07-20 Thread geste
I have a business system with a table called People and where we retain records of a Person even when they leave our organization. Each record has an active attribute that indicated if somebody is active (Duh!). However, I find myself writing a lot of snippets in controllers that essentially

Re: Using Configure or other methods to set app-wide constants

2012-01-03 Thread geste
: echo $this-ipaddr; On Jan 2, 7:12 pm, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Gary, euromark, OK, yes I was able use Configure::write in boostrap.php. If I can just use the CakePHP database connector, I think I'll just write a small snippet that looks up that secondary identifier and add

Re: Using Configure or other methods to set app-wide constants

2012-01-03 Thread geste
=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; and access in any controller function like: echo $this-ipaddr; On Jan 2, 7:12 pm, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Gary, euromark, OK, yes I was able use Configure::write in boostrap.php. If I can just use the CakePHP database connector, I think I'll just

Using Configure or other methods to set app-wide constants

2012-01-02 Thread geste
All, I am looking for the easiest, most global way to set a couple of app- wide constants, more or less, that would derive from Apache variables, specifically $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] and $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and that would be used throughout the app both in models and controllers. A

Re: Using Configure or other methods to set app-wide constants

2012-01-02 Thread geste
it the Cake way and so was trying to use existing model/ controller structure. J On 2 Jan., 22:48, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: All, I am looking for the easiest, most global way to set a couple of app- wide constants, more or less, that would derive from Apache variables

Re: Using Configure or other methods to set app-wide constants

2012-01-02 Thread geste
more appropriate. Alternatively,  I often log the user's IP address to the DB upon login. Gary On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: All, I am looking for the easiest, most global way to set a couple of app- wide constants, more or less, that would derive

Re: How to organize common/shared lookup functions? A component?

2010-07-27 Thread geste
Note to self: Don't post long, meandering questions late on a Friday afternoon :) Jim On Jul 23, 3:15 pm, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: A few days ago I asked how to best create a read-only interface from our Drupal intranet instance to our CakePHP business app (on the same host

REST connect to component function?

2010-07-27 Thread geste
I am trying to gather some common functions in a component I am calling Lookup. This will house basic functions like LookupUserLastFirst (to produce lists of users sorted by last name and first name). Part of my purpose in doing this is to make some of these functions available on a read-only

Re: REST connect to component function?

2010-07-27 Thread geste
... and call controller-render On Jul 27, 6:33 pm, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to gather some common functions in a component I am calling Lookup.  This will house basic  functions like LookupUserLastFirst (to produce lists of users sorted by last name and first name

How to organize common/shared lookup functions? A component?

2010-07-23 Thread geste
A few days ago I asked how to best create a read-only interface from our Drupal intranet instance to our CakePHP business app (on the same host). Galymzhan was nice enough to steer me to the CakePHP REST interface and that is the path I am following. I foresee a *lot* of simple functions that

Re: Provide read-only interface for our CMS (Drupal)

2010-07-20 Thread geste
provided by your cake application. Anyway, it's just an idea. If you solve your problem, share your solution, I think it would be interesting. On 20 июл, 05:01, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: All, For an intranet application we run Drupal 6 but we also have a CakePHP application for back

Provide read-only interface for our CMS (Drupal)

2010-07-19 Thread geste
All, For an intranet application we run Drupal 6 but we also have a CakePHP application for back-office stuff. A simple example is employee directory. The CakePHP application is read-write with group-based access control. We'd like some of the CakePHP information to show up in Drupal on a

Re: Organizing hierarchical system with breadcrumb navigation

2009-08-28 Thread geste
Hi, On Aug 27, 10:27 pm, Braindead markus.he...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion using a model for breadcrumbs is bloated. Why don't you just set the breadcrumbs in the view manually? The HTML helper has two functions addCrumb and getCrumbs, which makes basic breadcrumbs really simple. Well,

Organizing hierarchical system with breadcrumb navigation

2009-08-27 Thread geste
I have modeled a business system for my department and it includes about 60 tables/models, perhaps 20 of which as simply lookup/reference tables that I would only make available through admin routing. Out of the box, CakePHP organization is pretty flat -- views and controllers all lying under

Re: Assigning, accessing and comparing viewVars in a controller...

2009-08-10 Thread geste
Brian, Many thanks. I got over a bit of a hump on this on Friday with your help. I do of course have another n00b follow up question :) I am using the authake plug-in for group-based authorization (this nice plug-in has been taken over by Marco Sbragi and is on CakeForge:

Assigning, accessing and comparing viewVars in a controller...

2009-08-07 Thread geste
Background: i am trying to build a little database-driven 2-level menu system that checks authorization to access menu pages and actions *before* they are displayed. If you are not authorized to use the budgets table in any way, you won't be presented with a budgets menus option (I am using

Re: Assigning, accessing and comparing viewVars in a controller...

2009-08-07 Thread geste
Sometimes I hit myself with a small, embarrassing clue stick immediately after posting. I thought I had tried using $this-viewVars['whatever' ] in my find conditions and that it just didn't work. But I just tried that little test of: $this-set('menu_link', /budgets );

Searching and filtering on id -- problem with form behavior (forms helper)

2009-07-15 Thread geste
Hello! I have a table where the primary key, id is not autoincremented, but is in fact a 6-digit real value. I want to give people the ability to search and filter by ID and a few other fields like budget_name. I have implemented a filter component that I found (here:

Re: Searching and filtering on id -- problem with form behavior (forms helper)

2009-07-15 Thread geste
$form-input('Budget.id',array('type' = 'text')); Have you tried something like that? geste wrote: Hello! I have a table where the primary key, id is not autoincremented, but is in fact a 6-digit real value.  I want to give people the ability to search and filter by ID and a few other

Re: Cleaner display of related data in baked views? displayField?

2009-04-29 Thread geste
at 7:35 PM, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Personally, I'll take your response to mean I'm not out of my mind. I'm not sure what you mean but I don't think either of us are out of their mind. :-) Yes, time to leave scaffolding behind, but there were some helpful

Re: Cleaner display of related data in baked views? displayField?

2009-04-29 Thread geste
Dieter, Thanks very much for the links. That looks like what I want to do. Starting to experiment right now with the simple examples from the first article. Jim On Apr 29, 9:08 am, Dieter_be dieterplaeti...@gmail.com wrote: Geste, the solution to your problem is customizing the bake

Cleaner display of related data in baked views? displayField?

2009-04-28 Thread geste
I started a project with a bunch of preliminary scaffolded views and those were find for helping us through data structures and relationships. They also all included some nice defaults -- would show name by default for a foreign key id in index and view views. But it was clear I had to move on

Re: Cleaner display of related data in baked views? displayField?

2009-04-28 Thread geste
On Apr 28, 4:00 pm, brian bally.z...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:41 PM, geste jim.ho...@gmail.com wrote: I started a project with a bunch of preliminary scaffolded views and those were find for helping us through data structures and relationships.  They also all included

Re: Save null or empty datetime fields

2009-04-01 Thread geste
Justin, On Mar 31, 9:56 am, Stinkbug justink...@gmail.com wrote: I ran into the same problem.  I've been told this is a PHP problem, not really a Cake problem.  The way we ended up handling it is by creating a stored procedure and calling that procedure within our model.  Basically, what the

Re: Save null or empty datetime fields

2009-04-01 Thread geste
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Re: Save null or empty datetime fields

2009-04-01 Thread geste
Ooops, hit enter too quick... I used the first example in that trac request: https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/5702#comment:5 And it did what I hoped. My scaffolded views now give nice, big, empty dates for NULL dates in the scaffolded add and edit views.

Re: Save null or empty datetime fields

2009-03-30 Thread geste
Edwin, I have a similar interest. I have started a new application with 40+ tables and I am trying to get as much mileage as possible from baked models, views and controllers. In several tables I have DATE fields that allow NULL dates. For example, in the equipment_items table, the

Re: Best way to implement/organize multiple drop-down menus and other lookup functions?

2008-07-02 Thread geste
Hello! On Jul 1, 10:02 am, b logica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:59 AM, geste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For several new CakePHP applications (I'll call them app1, app2, app3), I will need to implement a number of drop-down menus.  These would be things like building

Re: Anyone adapt Authake to external authentication?

2008-07-01 Thread geste
Well, to answer my own question, I plodded through Authake and managed to tweak it so that it does not use local Authake password but uses PubCookie-provided REMOTE_USER authentication with Authake providing just authorization (groups and rules). I appended a few more details to the Authake

Best way to implement/organize multiple drop-down menus and other lookup functions?

2008-07-01 Thread geste
For several new CakePHP applications (I'll call them app1, app2, app3), I will need to implement a number of drop-down menus. These would be things like building codes that are already stored in a separate database (I'll call that the lookup database). So, what I would like to do is have app1,