Comments on: Another use case for beforeSave()

By: Ricardo Stuven

Ricardo Stuven — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:37:14 +0000

FYI, here is andrew’s ticket:
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/329

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:49:36 +0000

This is a problem with the HtmlHelper class. The checkbox should recieve on and off values (ex. array(‘on’=>1, ‘off’=>0) ). Then an input type=”hidden” with the same name as the checkbox and the default off value should be printed just before the checkbox input.

If the checkbox is checked the ‘on’ value is returned, if it is not check the hidden value is returned.

By: Ricardo Stuven

Ricardo Stuven — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:56:12 +0000

The FAQ is now updated.

By: cake baker » Two useful functions for your AppModel

cake baker » Two useful functions for your AppModel — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:20:21 +0000

[...] Ricardo Stuven’s comment inspired me to completely refactor a function described in an earlier post. So from now on my app model contains two functions: setBoolean and setDate. [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:58:23 +0000

@Ricardo: thank you for this nice and reusable solution :)

By: Ricardo Stuven

Ricardo Stuven — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:58:41 +0000

Add this to your AppModel:

function setBoolean($field)
{
  $this->data[$this->name][$field] = isset($this->data[$this->name][$field])?1:0;
}

Now your code looks like this:

function beforeSave()
{
  $this->setBoolean('public');
  return true;
}

:-)

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:45:18 +0000

Well, you can solve it with some Javascript and a hidden field. But that has the disadvantage that it does not work when Javascript is disabled.

By: mememe

mememe — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:20:31 +0000

the model could be a better place than controller, but i think the right place should be the *view* because it’s an issue with the checkbox, not with data type. excuse i don’t know how to solve it, but i think this should be the proper thing…