Comments on: Two useful functions for your AppModel

By: ThinkingPHP » Using generateFields() + Fix fields of the type ‘date’

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:40:18 +0000

[...] Important: As it turns out this might not be the most “best practice” solution to working with date fields since this stuff should be better inside of the model. If you care to do things the right way definitly have a look at CakerBaker’s Blog post that deals with that topic and forget about the this step here ; ). [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:12:30 +0000

@Nate: Thanks for the warning. I was not aware of that.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:10:42 +0000

@Troy: Thanks for the tip. Here is the link: http://cakephp.org/pastes/show/00e37cf0187d6b50ab921776f3ee7b8f

By: Troy Schmidt

Troy Schmidt — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:26:16 +0000

gwoo also has a paste in Cakebin on a conversion of all the HTML helper date and time fields to SQL time.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:00:31 +0000

Daniel, this is a great solution to the problem of POST data not returning anything for unchecked checkboxes. Just be careful when using Model::saveField( ), because it will automatically write a 0 (false) value in any checkbox that is not set.

By: Felix Geisendörfer

Felix Geisendörfer — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:31:51 +0000

Hmm this looks very cool (!). I’ve worked around this problem (date’s) by using a function out of the scaffold controller called _cleanUpFields() (see thinkingphp.org) but this is better! Nice job!