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My findings in Yii and comparisons to CakePHP | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. My findings in Yii and comparisons to CakePHP. December 20th, 2008. Since I have found out about Yii. I have been using it to work on a “dummy” website with features that are generally used across a large variety of websites (e.g. news system, user system, authorization, etc). This is also exactly what I did with CakePHP. PHP 5 features included in the core. Which leads to the next point:. OOP style AR and lazy loading. Retrieve the post whose ID is 10. And of course PHP 5&#821...

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Safe attributes tip | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. February 19th, 2009. In my last two posts [ 1. The answer to that seems to be yes. So I thought, why be redundant? So I went about the task of teaching Yii that all “required” attributes are also “safe”. It seems the most elegant way to do this is by extending getSafeAttributeNames() in your model. So that’s what I did. Now, I’ll share with you. Just drop this code in any model that you would like to have this behavior. Enjoy if you wish and give feedback.

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Validation scenarios | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. February 16th, 2009. Applies to 'register' scenario. Username, password, password repeat, email'. Applies to 'recover' scenario. Applies to all scenarios. This rule checks if the username is unique in the database in. The 'register' scenario (we don't want it to check for uniqueness. On the login page for instance). This rule applies to 'register' and 'update' scenarios. Compares 'password' field to 'password repeat' to make sure they are the same. February 16th, 2009. February...

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Safe attribute scenarios | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. February 17th, 2009. If you read my last article on validation scenarios. Then you may understand why in different scenarios you may need different attributes to be required. However you may have noticed a missing link – what if in different scenarios you also need different attributes to be considered as “safe”? These attributes are safe to massively assign. Considered safe by default). And easily set himself as an admin. These attributes can be massively assigned in any scena...

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scenarios | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. February 19th, 2009, No Comments. In my last two posts [1, 2] I explained how to define scenario-based validation rules and safe attributes. Something I have noted is that whenever I end up specifying an attribute as “required” in the validation rules(), I also always end up specifying it as “safe” in safeAttributes() under the same scenario. This got me […]. February 17th, 2009, 3 Comments. If you have no idea about […]. February 16th, 2009, 16 Comments.

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PHP Code shortcuts to if/else statements | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. PHP Code shortcuts to if/else statements. January 1st, 2009. Here are some very useful PHP code shortcuts that I have learned. You may have seen them before or you may not have, but if you didn’t understand them, hopefully you will after reading this article. The first is the Ternary Operator. The above does the same as the following:. Sets $name to $me if $me is not empty, or to $you if $me is empty. The above does the same as the following:. The above works because in the or.

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Web Development | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. Alternative to the beforeAction() event. January 11th, 2010, 5 Comments. I often see that when someone needs something executed on every page request before anything else is executed, they usually put it in the controller beforeAction() method. Things you might want executed on every page request might be, for example (so you know what I’m talking about): Handling the layout Cleaning all GET and POST […]. April 9th, 2009, 5 Comments. February 19th, 2009, No Comments. If you rea...

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Alternative to the beforeAction() event | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. Alternative to the beforeAction() event. January 11th, 2010. I often see that when someone needs something executed on every page request before anything else is executed, they usually put it in the controller beforeAction(). Method. Things you might want executed on every page request might be, for example (so you know what I’m talking about):. Cleaning all GET and POST parameters (I don’t like to do this but some people do). Method. You might image that the. Method will be ex...

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active records | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. April 9th, 2009, 5 Comments. One question I hear many people ask around the Yii forum is how to use table prefixes with ActiveRecord. I believe the best way to solve this problem is to extend CActiveRecord: tableName(). Now you can either extend this method in every active record class you would like to use a prefix manually, or you can […]. WordPress theme by ShinRa House. Syndicate this site using RSS. Http:/ php-thoughts.cubedwater.com / active records.

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Table prefixes | Jonah's Thoughts

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On PHP and things related. April 9th, 2009. One question I hear many people ask around the Yii forum is how to use table prefixes with ActiveRecord. I believe the best way to solve this problem is to extend CActiveRecord: tableName(). Normally your active record classes would have the following inheritance:. CModel - CActiveRecord - YourARModels. CModel - CActiveRecord - ActiveRecord - YourARModels. Should work). It could look something like this:. Attribute to an empty string in that active record.