Upgrading from CakePHP 1.2 pre-beta to the beta version

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• CakePHP 1.2 Beta :: {one true brace January 02, 2008 at 19:16

  [...] Upgrading from CakePHP 1.2 pre-beta to the beta version – dho [...]

• Mariano Iglesias January 03, 2008 at 02:14

  If you don’t want to “know” which field you are validating on your custom validation methods you can do the following to get the value you need to evaluate:

  function customValidation($valueSet, $params=array()) {
  $value = array_pop(array_reverse($valueSet));
  }

  Or if you don’t care about altering the original $value array just:

  function customValidation($value, $params=array()) {
  $value = array_shift($value);
  }

• nao January 03, 2008 at 15:15

  Or just :

  function customValidation($valueSet, $params=array()) {
  $value = current($valueSet);
  // If you want fieldname
  $field = key($valueSet);
  }

• Tim Daldini January 03, 2008 at 15:22

  I have not tried the new version yet but I believe there is now a non custom equalTo function available which you could use instead to compare passwords.

  The CakePHP site design changed as well, it’s very…HAPPY! I like it.

• Nao January 03, 2008 at 15:35

  Or
  function customValidation($valueSet, $params=array()) {
  list($field, $value) = each($valueSet);
  }

• cakebaker January 03, 2008 at 19:56

  @all: Thanks for your comments!

  @Mariano, Nao: To me the approach using “current()” looks the most promising.

  @Tim: I think equalTo() is not thought for this purpose, see Nate’s comment: https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/3594

• Tim Daldini January 04, 2008 at 01:38

  So I guess the way equalTo is implemented now is to compare the fieldcontent to a fixed value/string?

  So there is no way to compare 2 fields just yet…out of the cakebox that is?

• cakebaker January 04, 2008 at 18:24

  @Tim: Yes, it is to compare the field content against a fixed value. I think there is no built-in way to compare two fields, you have to do it manually.

• Spout January 06, 2008 at 00:59

  For comparing passwords I use:

  function compareData ($valueSet, $field) {
  list(, $value) = each($valueSet);
  return ($value == $this->data[$this->name][$field]);
  }

• Matt Huggins January 06, 2008 at 02:16

  I’m now thoroughly confused for instances where additional parameters need to be provided to custom validation methods.

  Here’s a function I was using in 1.2 pre-beta that ensures a field value is unique in a table. (It also prevents a false-positive for the current ID.) I can’t seem to understand right now how I should convert this to work in the new 1.2 beta.

  function validateUnique($data, $name) {
  $obj = $this->find(array($name => $data), null, null, -1);
  $match = isset($this->id) && ($obj[$this->name]['id'] == $this->id);
  return !$obj || ($obj && $match);
  }

  Also, here’s how I referenced the validation routine previously:

  var $validate = array(
  ‘username’ => array(
  ‘unique’ => array(‘rule’ => array(‘validateUnique’, ‘username’)),
  ),
  );

  Any help in getting my head wrapped around this is greatly appreciated!

• Matt Huggins January 06, 2008 at 02:57

  Sorry, one more question for anyone who might have figured it out. It seems that the FormHelper’s date method now stores the data in an associative array like this:

  $data['Model']['date_column']['day']
  $data['Model']['date_column']['month']
  $data['Model']['date_column']['year']

  I found in a Google Groups thread that this is automatically concatenated into $data['Model']['date_column']. However, when I try to validate that column via the “date” validation routine, the full controller dump shows that the data has not been concatenated, being passed as an array containing 3 items instead. How should I go about validating a date field then?

• Brandon P January 06, 2008 at 21:42

  @Matt:
  Try doing $this->cleanUpFields() within your controller prior to calling the save/validation routine. As I understand it, that method is where the concatenation takes place.

• Upgrade to CakePHP 1.2 Beta | Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Javascript January 07, 2008 at 14:28

  [...] The Model::generateList() function has also be deprecated, in favor of Model::find(’list’). It’s not an exact duplicate of generateList() but it gets the job done. Check out the cakebaker for more essential tips for upgrading from CakePHP 1.2 pre-beta to the fresh new CakePHP 1.2 beta. [...]

• Mariano Guezuraga January 07, 2008 at 15:23

  Also the classic validation constants (VALID_NOT_EMPTY, etc) are now deprecated.

  The new validators are:

  0 – getInstance
  1 – alphaNumeric
  2 – between
  3 – blank
  4 – cc
  5 – comparison
  6 – custom
  7 – date
  8 – decimal
  9 – email
  10 – equalTo
  11 – extension
  12 – file
  13 – ip
  14 – minLength
  15 – maxLength
  16 – money
  17 – multiple
  18 – numeric
  19 – phone
  20 – postal
  21 – range
  22 – ssn
  23 – url
  24 – userDefined

• Matt Huggins January 08, 2008 at 06:36

  Thanks Brandon, that did the trick! :)

• cakebaker January 08, 2008 at 19:26

  @all: Thanks for your comments!

  @Spout: Yes, your solution is more generic than what I showed in the article.

  @Matt, Brandon: Hm, cleanUpFields() shouldn’t work anymore, it has been deprecated in 1.2beta and the implementation has been removed ;-) According to the API docs you have now to use Model::deconstruct().

  @Mariano: Yes, the validation constants are deprecated since quite some time.

• speedmax January 09, 2008 at 03:37

  @Matt, the validate unique custom method i come up with pre-beta doesn’t work any more, with nao’s “current” approach, here is what i can come up with

  function validateUnique($data, $field) {
  $condition = array(“{$this->name}.{$field}” => current($data));
  if (!empty($this->id))
  $condition += array(“{$this->name}.id” => “”.$this->id);
  return ($this->findCount($condition) == 0);
  }

• Beth January 09, 2008 at 06:33

  This may not be the best place to ask this but I’m going anyway.

  Is there a list of deprecated stuff?

• CakePHP 1.2… beta!! « 32 in 23 January 10, 2008 at 18:40

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• Deprecated stuff in CakePHP 1.2 - cakebaker January 10, 2008 at 19:39

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• Matt Huggins January 15, 2008 at 22:03

  Thanks for sharing, speedmax. I actually ended up getting my code to work in the following manner before seeing your response. However, I think I’ll change it since your way appears to be more efficient and readable.

  function validateUnique($data) {
  $value = current($data);
  $field = key($data);

  $obj = $this->find(array($field => $value), null, null, -1);
  $match = isset($this->id) && ($obj[$this->name][$this->primaryKey] == $this->id);
  return !$obj || ($obj && $match);
  }

• Matt Huggins January 17, 2008 at 00:21

  Also, thanks for the heads up on using “deconstruct” instead of “cleanUpFields”, cakebaker. Worked like a charm! :)

• cakebaker January 18, 2008 at 17:46

  @Matt: Cool to hear it was useful for you :)

• Dia January 23, 2008 at 18:30

  @speedmax

  correct me if I’m wrong but with the new “find” approach, shouldn’t we write
  return ($this->find(‘count’, array(‘conditions’ => $conditions)) == 0);
  instead of
  return ($this->findCount($condition) == 0);
  ?

• Tara Page October 02, 2008 at 22:55

  Hi,

  I’m new to Cake and am using Verison 1.2 and just did cake bake on a few of my tables. There seems to be a bug in the baker still that is putting in 1.1 code that isn’t accepted in 1.1 (like generateList instead of find->(‘list’))

  My newest problem is that after I bake the code (and didn’t make any changes) I try to add a new record to my table and I get:

  Fatal error: Call to undefined method PartiesController::cleanUpFields() in /var/www_spice/app/controllers/parties_controller.php on line 22

  Any help would be appreciated, if I take out cleanUpFields() then it doesn’t work, I get a blank page.

  Thanks

• cakebaker October 03, 2008 at 17:17

  @Tara: Hm, which version of CakePHP 1.2 do you use? RC3? If you are not yet using RC3, I recommend to upgrade.

  Hope that helps!

• Tara Page January 20, 2009 at 18:45

  Thanks, crazy question though.. My husband installed the newest Cake 1.2 (the stable release) last week, and when I bake my project, I still get the above error message:

  Fatal error: Call to undefined method PartiesController::cleanUpFields() in /var/www_spice/app/controllers/parties_controller.php on line 22

  My question is when you install the new Cake Php, does the cake command also get installed or upgraded? Is it in a different location and perhaps I have the wrong cake in my path? Let me know, I’m not sure why it seems as though I have an old cake baker, but newest cake php download….

  Very confused at the moment :) THanks for any suggestions…

  Tara

• cakebaker January 21, 2009 at 18:09

  @Tara: It seems like you are using an old version of bake. If you install a new version of CakePHP and replace the “cake” folder with the new “cake” folder, then bake is also updated.

  Make sure you use bake in a similar way as shown below:

  dho@dh:~/projects/cake_1.2.x.x/cake/console$ ./cake bake
  

  Hope that helps!

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