Searching a set of records in Zend Framework - php

Question

I have written code to search for the First name and last name and display those particular records if available and perform actions like update and delete on those records , I have written the following code to search , please tell me what is the correct approach to build a search controller .I am getting the following error :
Message: Method "select" does not exist and was not trapped in __call()
The code I have written in the controller is :
public function searchAction($params)
{
$query = $this->select()
->from(
array('EMPLOYEES'),
array('FIRST_NAME','LAST_NAME','SALARY','HIREDATE')
);
$query = $this->_makeParams($query,$params);
return $this->fetchAll($query);
}
private function _makeParams($query, $params)
{
$firstname = isset($params['firstname']) ? trim($params['firstname']) : '';
$lastname = isset($params['lastname']) ? trim($params['lastname']) : '';
$salary = isset($params['salary']) ? trim($params['salary']) : '';
$hiredate= isset($params['hiredate']) ? trim($params['hiredate']) : '';
if($firstname!='')
{
$name = '%'.$this->quote($firstname).'%';//quote is my own function
$query->where("EMPLOYEES.FIRST_NAME LIKE '?'",$firstname);
}
if($lastname!='')
{
$query->where("EMPLOYEES.LAST_NAME =?",$lastname);
}
if($salary!='')
{
$query->where("EMPLOYEES.SALARY=?",$salary);
}
if($hiredate!='')
{
$query->where("EMPLOYEES.HIRE_DATE=?",$hiredate);
}
}

Answer 1

your error comes from the fact that your calling select() against the controller object instead of the database object:
public function searchAction($params)
{
//$this in this context is a Zend_Controller_Action object
//you need to query against your database object.
$db = Zend_Db_Table::getDefaultAdapter();
$query = $db->select()
->from(
array('EMPLOYEES'),
array('FIRST_NAME','LAST_NAME','SALARY','HIREDATE')
);
$query = $this->_makeParams($query,$params);
//again make sure to query against the database object
return $db->fetchAll($query);
}
if you don't have a database object created in your bootstrap.php or application.ini you can create one with the Zend_Db:
$db = Zend_Db::factory('Pdo_Mysql', array(
'host' => '127.0.0.1',
'username' => 'webuser',
'password' => 'xxxxxxxx',
'dbname' => 'test'
));

Answer 2

public function searchAction($params)
{
$db = Zend_Registry :: get('db');
$select = $db->select();
$query = $select->from(
array('EMPLOYEES'),
array('FIRST_NAME','LAST_NAME','SALARY','HIREDATE')
);
$query = $this->_makeParams($query,$params);
return $this->fetchAll($query);
}
You are getting the error because you have not created the object of Zend registry.So copy the function and replace your code