Unofficial CakePHP forums

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• Pacifists July 19, 2006 at 07:12

  Maybe I’m not understanding something :) but isn’t google group a forum ?:)

• cakebaker July 19, 2006 at 09:24

  Yes, google group is somehow a forum, But it lacks one feature people associate with a forum: there are no categories

• Pacifists July 19, 2006 at 11:15

  I don’t see how it’s a bad thing, there are no forums that can match google search and so google groups have no need for categories:)

  I think it’s just about people not thinking out of the box. Like if there are no categories .. it’s ain’t a forum and we all know it’s so not true :)

  Just my two cents

• AD7six July 19, 2006 at 16:46

  I don’t know if a forum will solve any problems… If it’s not actively moderated it could go the same way as the wiki. However I think at the very least, it’s good that someone took the initiative to do something for the community.

  I do know that the same questions pop up on the google group all the time… There’s a couple of obvious reasons for this:

  1) lack of official documentation for certain things (continually improving)
  2) Searching, especially on the google group but even with the cakephp.org/search site, often returns a mountain of irrelavent or inacurate links before one that is actually useful.

  The great thing about the wiki was that it was open for users to contribute. The problem is that not all contributions are useful (and some of mine may count among them) and can quickly become outdated. having another source of info, if it is only semi useful will not be a help overall – but that’s not to say that is definitely what’s going to happen with the unofficial forum.

  The approach I am about to use is to restructure my site so that I can add/demonstrate code via plugins – in that way, if somebody downloads the code that they just tried and it worked (or didn’t!), it should at least eliminate the thought that the code is written incorrectly (or prove that it is!)- because you’ll be downloading code that is running on my site.

  I for one am going to keep an eye on the new forum :)

• PHPDeveloper.org July 20, 2006 at 13:17

  Cake Baker’s Blog: Unofficial CakePHP forums…

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• tariquesani July 21, 2006 at 06:05

  Ah! good to see that it still survives after that awful “frown down upon” from the lead dev on IRC.

  It is not about jumping to forgone conclusions that it is no good – if it is that it will die a natural death if people find it useful it will thrive – let the users decide and yes kain needs to be applauded for taking efforts for the community.

  @cakebaker – thanks for mentioning the forum :)

• cakebaker July 21, 2006 at 10:43

  @Pacifists: I think it is not that important whether google groups is a forum or not, more important is whether it fits the needs of the users. And there are people out there who do not like google groups for whatever reasons.

  @AD7six: A good idea to provide example code as plug-ins.

  @tariquesani: Yes, the users will decide if the forum will survive. I mentioned the forum as I want to support community initiatives.

• Troy Schmidt July 24, 2006 at 12:43

  I don’t like a forum that is seperate. I started research a time ago and haven’t had the chance to get back to it. Basically, a forum that would post to Google Group automatically and also automatically check an email account for Google Group activity. The difficult part comes when you want to keep things in categories. So, that it can be categorized on the Forum, but still posted to the Google Group. That is the ultimate goal. The forum should be an extension of the Google Group and not something seperate.

  But one thing is that I can’t check GMAIL at work. So, I can’t do the group that way and must do thru groups.google.com. As for the searching, it isn’t anything special that a fulltext indexing on database couldn’t accomplish.

• jhice July 25, 2006 at 17:20

  Hi all,
  Perhaps we could see Google Groups like Gmail “Search, don’t sort” ? And forum or wiki could archive things “officialy”. However, I think we can trust Google for their innovation and use Groups the right way instead of a forum. In fact, I dont use Groups yet ^^ just a reflexion on the fly…

• Cakephpforum November 03, 2007 at 02:52

  Looks like cakephpforum.com is already dead after not even a year..

  So I setup a new “UnOfficial” CakePHP forum at http://cakephpforum.net … (I still believe a forum is necessary!)

  I’ll try to make sure it won’t end up like its .com sister… so I’ll need everyone’s help to contribute..

• cakebaker » New CakePHP forum started November 03, 2007 at 18:15

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• Adedoyin Kassem October 07, 2008 at 15:38

  I hve been trying to upload my cake application to my web host but when i view it online it keeps returning errors. please can someone check it up for me and tell what the problem really is…

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• Mariusd September 01, 2009 at 09:52

  I’m quite new in cakephp and I will apreciate if someone can help.
  I want to list all my [B]products[/B] from DB once but if a [B]product[/B] have 2,3 or more [B]ingredients[/B] then in the list that product will apear 2,3,x times(like in the image)

  [URL=http://img412.imageshack.us/i/53074479.jpg/][IMG]http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6611/53074479.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

  the [B]ingredients[/B] of a product are saved in a table called [B]product_retetas[/B] and the records of that table have the following fields:
  id | [B]product_id[/B] | [B]ingredient_id[/B] | …|…

  [B]products[/B] have [B]hasAndBelongsToMany[/B] relationship with [B]ingredients[/B]
  [B]products[/B] have [B]hasOne[/B] relationship with [B]product_retetas[/B]
  [B]ingredients[/B] have [B]hasAndBelongsToMany[/B] relationship with [B]products[/B]
  [B]product_retetas[/B] have [B]belogsTo[/B] relationship with both [B]ingredients[/B] and [B]products[/B]

  ——————————————————–

  class ProductsController extends AppController {

  var $name = ‘Products’;
  var $helpers = array(‘Html’, ‘Form’);
  /* var $paginate = array(
  ‘fields’=>array($this->query(‘distinct Product.id’)),
  ‘recursive’=>0,
  ‘limit’=>10 );*/

  function index() {

  $this->Product->recursive = 0;
  $this->set(‘products’, $this->paginate());
  }

  If I set recursive la -2 then I will receive error in the index at every button (from the picture) becouse every button link is related to a model who belongs to product
  (link(‘alergeni’,
  array(‘controller’=> ‘product_retetas’, ‘action’=>’alergeni’,$product['Product']['id']),
  array(‘target’=>’_blank’,'class’=>’btn’), null, false
  );?>)

• cakebaker September 01, 2009 at 17:09

  @MariusD: Hm, I am not sure I understand what you try to accomplish… If you want to return only the Products, then you could add

  'contain' => array('Product')
  

  to your $paginate array.

  Hope that helps!

• Jiran March 23, 2010 at 13:01

  Hii, Can anybody add a link on this code ?

  And when click on the link it should redirect to the view of the
  search result.( ie.to array(‘controller’ => ‘members’, ‘action’ =>
  ‘view’))

  code :

  echo ”.$results['members']['name'].”;

  I’m faild to add the link on it.
  Plz help me.

• Jiran Simon March 23, 2010 at 13:03

  Hii, Can anybody add a link on this code ?

  And when click on the link it should redirect to the view of the
  search result.( ie.to array(‘controller’ => ‘members’, ‘action’ =>
  ‘view’))

  code :

  echo '<li onClick="fill(\''.addslashes($results['members']
  ['name']).'\');">'.$results['members']['name'].'</li>';

  I’m faild to add the link on it.
  Plz help me.

• cakebaker March 23, 2010 at 17:12

  @Jiran: Something like:
  

  echo '<li onClick="fill(\''.addslashes($results['members']['name']).'\');">'. 
       $html->link($results['members']['name'], array(‘controller’ => ‘members’, ‘action’ => ‘view’)).
       '</li>';

  
  should do the trick.

  Hope this helps.

• Jiran Simon March 24, 2010 at 06:51

  echo '<li onClick="fill(\''.addslashes($results['members']['name']).'\');">'. 
       $html->link($results['members']['name'], array(‘controller’ => ‘members’, ‘action’ => ‘view’)).
       '</li>';

  After running it shows following errors on text box
  Undefined variable: html [APP/controllers/members_controller.php, line 165]

  Fatal error: Call to a member function link() on a non-object in /var/www/cakephp/app/controllers/members_controller.php on line 165

• cakebaker March 24, 2010 at 18:11

  @Jiran: Ah, you are using this snippet in a controller ;-) I would consider to move this code into a view, as it is usually a bad idea to have html code in your controllers.

  If you really have to use the link method in the controller, have a look at How to use a helper in a controller.

  Hope this helps.

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