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# Apr 29th 2017, 10:36 dakota @loginews The equivilent is `$this->request->getQuery('page')`, or `$this->request->getQuery('q')`, etc.
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:35 admad Since you have only dealt with Windows deaktop environment no wonder using linux based server environment involves a learning curve for you
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:34 dakota That is what the request object is for
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:34 dakota @loginews http://cakephp.loginonline.net/index.php?n=Index.TheSearchPlugin <- You should never ever ever use any of the PHP superglobals (i.e. `$_SERVER`)
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:34 keith I’d love to @dakota but not this time sadly
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:32 dakota >Funnily, some authors claim that as from version 3, CakePHP only handles validation via Modeless Forms Curious where you read that from?
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:32 admad @loginews i didn't call your experience limited, I call the technology/tools you have been using as limiting.
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:31 dakota One click install
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:31 dakota loginews Also, take a look at https://github.com/cakedc/oven
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:30 dakota There might be online streaming :slightly_smiling_face:
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:29 dakota but I do understand
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:29 dakota I’m in South Africa, and I’m attending :P
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:28 loginews I=in
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:28 loginews @dakota no. I am too far away. I Mauritius.
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:28 dakota @loginews (and @keith)
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:28 dakota Planning on attending CakeFest?
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:28 loginews @dakota yes. You see, I have been guiding myself to do it in 5 minutes
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:27 dakota loginews I see it’s more than just the first page, and you do talk about bake :slightly_smiling_face:
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:21 dakota keith, glad I could help
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:21 dakota > Php calculates differences between dates using strtotime function. Use Chronos (i.e. the Datetime class) - https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/chronos.html
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:21 keith After being at your talk @dakota crud has made my life a joy
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:20 dakota > The time it takes to create a CRUD in MsAccess is 5 minutes. The time it takes to do it in CakePHP is in days. Two tools that can make it take less than 5 minutes in CakePHP: Bake (https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/bake.html>) and the CRUD plugin (<https://crud.readthedocs.io/>) - Crud plugin combined with the crud-view plugin is even better (<https://crud-view.readthedocs.io/)
# Apr 29th 2017, 10:18 dakota loginews, I know you are new to CakePHP, so probably haven’t tried everything that it has to offer, but I feel like I need to give you some hints based on your article :slightly_smiling_face:
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:29 slackebot1 designing a report is also mine. But the job of finding ways to display a field in a report, without running into considerations of centimeters, of colors, etc, is that of the language designer. I am not an employee of HSBC. They are my customers. Being an Msc Maths guy, I can grasp abstract and complex concepts very fast - that is not an issue. I have made a choice and that's CakePHP. Believe me, my opinions are valuable!
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:29 slackebot1 already working with MsAccess. But you perhaps do not remember the days when Microsoft purchased Foxpro and dumped the product. That was how I was FORCED to work with MsAccess. Microsoft also came up with new products which were not upward compatible. So my decision to go for MySQL and cloud proved to be a good one. I have tried to program more comfortably with php by using phpmyedit and ajaxcrud. You see, the job of writing the HSBC system is mine. T
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:29 slackebot1 astronomical calculations. I have very long ago disconnected MsAccess from its proprietary db, and used ODBC to connect to MySQL databases. Some routines were written in plain php, and worked well. I currently have software for doctors, for accounting and POS, and for payroll. My experience is in these. I only have to make them run on the cloud, and on the new devices. I do not have to change them. Microsoft was supposed to offer the easiest transitio
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:29 loginews @admad It all depends what you call experience, and what you call limited. I use MsAccess to develop sophisticated software for whole departments at HSBC (an international bank). If you need RAD you must consider something which lets you focus on the system to be computerized, not on the language. I have 35 years experience in programming, and have written code in machine language and assembly language. I have written code in C, Pascal and
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:27 joop is it possible to acces a variable which was declareted in the BeforeRender()?
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:10 joop okey thank you
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:10 burzum joop what makes you think it would magically get set? You need to set it to the view. If you do that in your app controller it will be set to all views rendered by controllers that extend app controller
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:07 keith I know the docs say use View Cells, but that won’t work in this case. I also don’t want to redirect because I’d prefer the user goes to /public/:id which then renders the controller action linked to the id in the database
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:05 joop or will automatically pass for each views?
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:05 keith I’m trying to call an action and render the view using fields from a database to choose the plugin/controller/action etc. So I have prefix, controller, action fields in the database, currently i’m using requestAction to achieve this but it has been deprecated, so I’m wondering if there is a better way
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:05 slackebot1 and should i use $this->set(compact($isadmin) in the beforerender()?
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:03 burzum Joop, passing it where needed. The only place you'll probably always need it is the view. So just set it in beforeRender()
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:02 joop i mean i need several places $isadmin variables(its indicates if admin is logged in or not)
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:01 joop what is the best practise to store global variables?
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:01 joop i would like to ask your openion
# Apr 29th 2017, 09:00 joop hello guys have good moorning to you all
# Apr 29th 2017, 07:49 admad @loginews your article can be summarized as "Trying your hand at webdev using a modern PHP framework involves a steep learning curve, when you current experience only involves using as very limiting s/w like MSAccess"
# Apr 29th 2017, 07:24 hmic rudy1976s: what does "create" mean? yes, you can easily dispatch an event. you could even attach one, which is likely not what you want?!