Questions tagged [cakephp]
CakePHP is an open-source web, rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. It uses commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm.
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"[notice] child pid XXXX exit signal Segmentation fault (11)" in apache error.log [closed]
I am using Apache/PHP/MySQL stack.
Using as framework CakePHP.
Every now and then I get a blank white page. I can't debug it through Cake, so I peek in the apache error.log and here's what I get:
[...
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Best way to document Array options in PHPDoc?
I'm struggling to write readable and easy to understand documentation that describes the multi-tree structure for Array options that are passed to a function.
Here is an example array structure.
$...
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Set Response Status Code [duplicate]
I have an API call for which I need to be able to run some checks and potentially return various status codes. I don't need custom views or anything, I just need to return the proper code. If the user ...
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How do you make strings "XML safe"?
I am responding to an AJAX call by sending it an XML document through PHP echos. In order to form this XML document, I loop through the records of a database. The problem is that the database ...
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How to check not in array element
I am trying to check if an element is not in array than want to redirect page:
My code is as below:
$id = $access_data['Privilege']['id'];
if(!in_array($id,$user_access_arr))
{
$this->Session-...
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How can I see CakePHP's SQL dump in the controller?
Is there a way that one can cause CakePHP to dump its SQL log on demand? I'd like to execute code up until a point in my controller and see what SQL has been run.
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Fat models, skinny controllers and the MVC design pattern [closed]
I just read a blog post that explains MVC with a banking analogy. I have a few months of experience with web application development with an MVC framework (CakePHP), so I get the basics, but I began ...
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CakePHP 3.0 installation: intl extension missing from system
Using the CakePHP docs, I am trying to install 3.0-beta2 using composer but I got this error:
cakephp/cakephp 3.0.x-dev requires ext-intl * -> the requested PHP extension intl is missing from ...
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What is /var/www/html? [closed]
I am starting to pick up PHP / MySQL, but in all the documentation I'm reading, it mentions /var/www/html as being the folder you want to install a framework such as CakePHP, or for example /var/www/...
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PHP Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found
PHP Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found in /home/bd/public_html/app/webroot/Cake/Model/Datasource/Database/Mysql.php on line 177
PHP INFO:
PDO
PDO support => enabled
PDO drivers => sqlite, ...
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Input value doesn't display. How is that possible?
This must be something utterly stupid that I've done or am doing, but I have an input with a value attribute that simply isn't being displayed:
<div class="input text required">
<...
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Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error
I'm getting the following error in my CakePHP application:
Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit ...
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Generate ER Diagram from existing MySQL database, created for CakePHP [closed]
For CakePHP application, I created MySQL database.
Which tool to be used to create ER Diagram of database? Fields and relations between tables are created in a way cakePHP likes.
thank you in ...
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Can I use one model inside of a different model in CakePHP?
Can I use another Model inside one model?
Eg.
<?php
class Form extends AppModel
{
var $name='Form';
var $helpers=array('Html','Ajax','Javascript','Form');
var $components = array( '...
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CakePHP: Find where field is not null
I need to select all rows where User.site_url is not null. It's simple enough to do this in a regular MySQL query but how is this done in CakePHP?
The manual mentions the following:
array ("not&...
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How can I tell which CakePHP version is a project made with?
Is it possible to know the version of CakePHP used to generate a project with only the app code available?
My problem:
I downloaded a project made with CakePHP, and I really can't tell which Cake ...
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CentOS: Enabling GD Support in PHP Installation
How do I go about enabling GD Support in a CentOS Installation?
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What is the equivalent to getLastInsertId() in Cakephp?
If I do getLastInsertId() immediately after a save(), it works, but otherwise it does not. This is demonstrated in my controller:
function designpage() {
//to create a form Untitled
$this->...
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How to unit test your API?
I'm at the point where I need to write unit tests for a REST API written using CakePHP 1.3. The API supports GET, POST and PUT requests for querying and manipulating data.
Is there any established ...
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Is PHP Object-oriented?
Is PHP an object-oriented language? If not, then what about the framework CakePHP? Is it an object-oriented MVC implementation of PHP?
Also, can a PHP application wholly built using classes be called ...
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How to store repeating dates keeping in mind Daylight Savings Time
I'm storing events in my database. I have 'start' and 'end' date times, 'tickets_start' and 'tickets_end' (for when ticket sales actually start/end - as opposed to the start/end of the actual event).
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PHPUnit's returnValueMap not yielding expected results
I'm trying to use PHPUnit's returnValueMap() to stub out the results of a read. It isn't yielding the expected results, but an equivalent returnCallback() does. I've made my test case available if ...
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What is a .ctp file used for in CakePHP?
I'm starting to use CakePHP, and I'm in the process of reading the manual. About halfway down the page, there's this comment:
// Render the element in /views/elements/ajaxreturn.ctp
So a very ...
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CakePHP - get last query run
I want to get the last query CakePHP ran. I can't turn debug on in core.php and I can't run the code locally. I need a way to get the last sql query and log it to the error log without effecting the ...
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CakePHP find method with JOIN
Hi,
I need to do the following query using the CakePHP find method:
SELECT *
FROM `messages`
INNER JOIN users ON messages.from = users.id
WHERE messages.to = 4
ORDER BY messages.datetime DESC
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Display CTP Files as PHP Files in PHPStorm
I have a project running on CakePHP. All of my views are stored as ctp files. How do I render my ctp files so I have the same visual formatting that's present when I look at a file that is stored as ...
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how we add or remove readonly attribute from textbox on clicking radion button in cakephp using jquery?
Here is my cakephp generated HTML radio box and text box script:
<input type="radio" id="need_staff_on_site" name="data[CaterRequest][need_staff_on_site]" value="yes" class="staff_on_site"><...
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How do you update a cookie in PHP?
If I call setcookie() two times with the same cookie name, I get two cookies created.
How do you update an existing cookie?
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php e() and h() functions?
I and lately I'm seeing h() and e() functions in PHP. I have googled them, but they are so short that results don't give any idea of what they are. I got results like exponential or math related ...
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save() returning false, but with no error in CakePHP
My debug value is set to 2, and it's displaying all the queries, except the one I need.
I have an Items controller method that is calling this method in the User model (Item belongsTo User):
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Cakephp cake_core_ cache was unable to write 'cake_dev_en-us'
I have tried EVERYTHING but i keep getting the following cake error:
( ! ) Warning: _cake_core_ cache was unable to write 'cake_dev_en-us' to File cache in /var/www/bloglic-2013/cake/lib/Cake/Cache/...
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The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed [duplicate]
I'm outputting XML in CakePHP. But I'm getting this error when I put my XML into a validator:
The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
I am using correct XML layout ...
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Cakephp check if record exists
I am wondering, is there a function that allows me to check instantly if a record in the database exists?
Right now I am using the following piece of code to detect if a record exists, but I can ...
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Speeding up CakePHP
I've been a keen fan and user of CakePHP for about 2.5 years now, but the main bugbear that most fellow developers level at the framework is that it's slow, and the dispatch cycle takes too long to ...
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How to declare the type for local variables using PHPDoc notation?
I use Zend Studio to develop in PHP with CakePHP, and one of the problems with CakePHP is that the views all reference undeclared local variables.
So for example, in the controller you would
$this-&...
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base_url in CakePHP
In most web applications we need global var base_url. In cakephp to get base_url currently i put the following code on beforeRender method in app_controller.php
function beforeRender(){
$this->...
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CakePHP Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created
There have been several other posts about this, but none of the answers seemed to work for me.
When I navigate to the CakePHP page on my local machine, there is one error:
Cake is NOT able to ...
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404 Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server
I'm having small troubles and was wondering if someone can help me over the hump. I pulled a copy of a website down from Hostgator and I'm trying to set it up on my local machine using WAMP but, I ...
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Loading Vendor Files in CakePHP 2.0
I'm currently upgrading one of our projects to CakePHP 2.0. Unfortunately the "first line" of code makes problems, and I can't find a solution to that problem.
In CakePHP 1.3 I had an App::import("...
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To Use a PHP Framework or Not? [closed]
I've started writing a few applications in PHP, and I'm becoming more familiar with the language. Someone told me about CakePHP, and CodeIgniter. I wanted to get a better understanding of how these ...
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Undefined variable: $_SESSION
I'm getting E_NOTICE errors in a core CakePHP file when it tries to reference a never-set or unset session (cake/libs/cake_session.php line 372):
function read($name = null) {
if (is_null($name)) ...
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How can I run composer without user interaction?
I'm trying to run composer install on a cakephp installation, however it asks the user if they want to they want to set folder permissions:
Note, this is an example. In production the composer ...
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Asynchronous processing or message queues in PHP (CakePHP) [closed]
I am building a website in CakePHP that processes files uploaded though an XML-RPC API and though a web frontend. Files need to be scanned by ClamAV, thumbnails need to be generated, et cetera. All ...
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Rendering controller to a different view in CakePHP
Is there a way to render a controller to a different view then normal? I'm trying to pass some data from the controller to a non-default view. Meaning my controller is called:
class ...
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How do I update 1 field in CakePHP?
I want a function to alter one field, "is_featured" to 1(true) of Event model of given ID, to mark an event as "Featured".
class EventsController extends AppController{
function feature($id){}
}
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How do you specify an HTTP status code in Cakephp?
In my controller, I check a condition to see if the user is allowed to do something. If the check fails, I want to send a 403 back to the browser. How do I do that in Cakephp?
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CakePHP 2.0 - How to make custom error pages?
I read that the AppError class is now for backwards compatibility and that Exceptions should be used instead. How does one go about creating custom error pages for things like 404 errors, or ...
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Using CakePHP FormHelper with Bootstrap Forms
CakePHP's FormHelper is how you generate forms when making CakePHP applications. As one might assume, this includes generating input elements, like so:
$this->Form->input('abc');
Which will ...
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