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# Apr 9th 2019, 07:15 spriz @conehead sounds like beforeMarshal :slightly_smiling_face:
# Apr 9th 2019, 06:50 conehead Oh. BeforeValidate does not exist anymore
# Apr 9th 2019, 06:45 conehead What would be the best place to convert date strings to date objects before saving. In before validate? Before save?
# Apr 8th 2019, 19:08 blackjccl please help
# Apr 8th 2019, 19:08 blackjccl He called the class well ´$pdf = new TCPDF('L',PDF_UNIT,PDF_PAGE_FORMAT,TRUE,'UTF-8',FALSE);´
# Apr 8th 2019, 19:07 blackjccl I do not know if in my configuration I have to do something else
# Apr 8th 2019, 19:06 blackjccl Hi community I'm using plugin CakePdf with the library tcpdf and when generating the pdf it shows me the following error
# Apr 8th 2019, 16:41 spriz But yes - indeed many products can be “alternatives”, “related”, “similar” etc (type) to many other products :)
# Apr 8th 2019, 16:40 spriz I’m not saying I don’t agree - but I need more explanation :D
# Apr 8th 2019, 16:40 spriz @neon1024 what would the benefit in your opinion? It would have still have 2 different product_id columns and some type and source
# Apr 8th 2019, 16:14 rogerpro Thanks @rochasmarcelo. The field is in an association. I will try that in a while.
# Apr 8th 2019, 16:10 rochasmarcelo @rogerpro I think you could add a virtual field for it and add to allowed search fields
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:48 neon1024 I would guess that @spriz use-case is probably more complex
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:48 neon1024 Which would be `product_variants` or similar. Like I said, normalize into association
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:48 rogerpro I guess he needs many alternatives for each product
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:39 neon1024 Or normalizing the differences to an association?
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:38 neon1024 @spriz Why not a self-referencing table?
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:36 neon1024 I want to see if the string appears twice
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:35 neon1024 Anyone know if there is a method of like `assertResponseContains($string, $numberOfInstances)`
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:35 neon1024 So the test suite provides `assertResponseContains`
# Apr 8th 2019, 15:03 rogerpro It makes sense, @spriz
# Apr 8th 2019, 14:59 spriz I realise I need different aliases for the properties, but that’s no problemo :slightly_smiling_face:
# Apr 8th 2019, 14:58 spriz I need to start marking “Products” as alternatives to other Products - and the obvious thing imo is a `products_products` `BelongsToMany` assoc with a source and a target fk - am I on the road to something really stupid?
# Apr 8th 2019, 14:51 devito cross db joining a thing in cake 3?
# Apr 8th 2019, 14:48 rogerpro How to allow the user to sort by a calculated MAX() field with pagination in Cake 2?
# Apr 8th 2019, 13:28 Nitrogen actually, HAVING worked just fine.
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:55 asdfgh why Time::parse('now') returns 4/8/19, 12:54 PM i need this format 'Y-m-d H:i:s' (for db)
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:52 dereuromark you can make a sippet and reuse that, see how it is done in my geo plugin for example.
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:51 Nitrogen I also just found a suggestion to use HAVING, but I don't use that specific calculated field for grouping. not sure it'll work this way.
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:50 Nitrogen yup
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:48 dereuromark in 3.x?
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:37 Nitrogen hey, guys! In my model query I'm trying to perform a WHERE-search on a calculated field, which ends with 'unknown column'. What is suggested way of doing this? The only reference I found in documentation is by using collection filter. Is that the way to go?
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:29 conehead @dereuromark Yes thank you for your help. This plugin already helps me a lot. I am just getting into cake 3 and would like to learn as much as possible
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:28 dereuromark well, the plugin takes care of some stuff for you, including what fields can be patched etc. so best to either use it or at least look into what it does.
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:28 conehead aargh. id field was varchar and not char
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:23 asdfgh :D
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:23 asdfgh love cake!
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:23 asdfgh https://api.cakephp.org/3.7/class-Cake.ORM.Behavior.TimestampBehavior.html#_touch
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:22 asdfgh ?
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:22 asdfgh is tehre a "touch" method to just update that record's field
# Apr 8th 2019, 12:21 asdfgh only that column