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# Apr 9th 2019, 07:19 neon1024 As the association would be to the product
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:19 spriz then how would that link 2 products :thinking_face: ?
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 neon1024 It would only have product_id
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 neon1024 It would not, no.
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 neon1024 Then I could get any product, and get all it’s associations by type
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 spriz but it would still contain `product_source_id` and `product_target_id` I guess?
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 neon1024 So I could have a table with all the associations
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 neon1024 Probably with a ‘many-to-many’ join
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:18 neon1024 Then my UI would be a multi select of products for each type
# Apr 9th 2019, 07:17 neon1024 @spriz I’d have another table for ‘product_associations’, with id, product_id, association_type_id
# 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?