Disable Cakephp's Auto Model "feature" - php

In cake 1.2 there is a feature that allows the developer to no have to create models, but rather have cake do the detective work at run time and create the model for you. This process happens each time and is neat but in my case very hazardous. I read about this somewhere and now I'm experiencing the bad side of this.
I've created a plugin with all the files and everything appeared to be just great. That is until i tried to use some of the model's associations and functions. Then cake claims that this model i've created doesn't exist. I've narrowed it down to cake using this auto model feature instead of throwing and error! So i have no idea what's wrong!
Does anybody know how to disable this auto model feature? It's a good thought, but I can't seem to find where i've gone wrong with my plugin and an error would be very helpful!

There's always the possibility to actually create the model file and set var $useTable = false.
If this is not what you're asking for and the model and its associations actually do exist, but Cake seems to be unable to find them, you'll have to triple check the names of all models and their class names in both the actual model definition and in the association definitions.
AFAIK you can't disable the auto modelling.

Cake 1.2
It's a hack and it's ugly cus you need to edit core cake files but this is how i do it:
\cake\libs\class_registry.php : line 127ish
if (App::import($type, $plugin . $class)) {
${$class} =& new $class($options);
} elseif ($type === 'Model') {
/* Print out whatever debug info we have then exit */
pr($objects);
die("unable to find class $type, $plugin$class");
/* We don't want to base this on the app model */
${$class} =& new AppModel($options);
}
Cake 2
Costa recommends changing $strict to true in the init function on line 95 of Cake\Utility\ClassRegistry.php
See Cake Api Docs for init
ClassRegistry.php - init function

Use
var $useTable = false;
in your model definition.

Delete all cached files (all files under app/tmp, keep the folders)
In most cases where models seem to be acting in unexpected ways, often they dont include changes you've made, it is because that cake is useing an old cached version of the model.

Uh...where do we start. First, as Alexander suggested, clear your app cache.
If you still get the same behaviour, there is probably something wrong with the class and/or file names.
Remember the rules, for controller:
* classname: BlastsController
* filename: blasts_controller.php
for model:
* classname: Blast
* filename: blast.php
Don't foget to handle the irregular inflections properly.

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Phalcon pdo excpetion model first

I have problem with phalcon framework namely with models methods...
As you know models has included methods find() and findFirst()
I have generated model with phalcon-dev tools and now I am trying to do Model::find on it but I am getting an exception but dont know why...
There is some more informations (e.g stacktrace) :
http://exception.mateuszmarzecki.pl/
You can try change methods in model file
public static function find($parameters = array())
{
return self::find($parameters);
}
Does not look like your passing it the right parms.
SELECT FROM `nacionality`
Notice that your not selecting any fields from the database, and that is why your getting the Exception.
So... after some time of debugging I've found the problem...
For the next generation... if you don't want to lose a week as I did. Just read carefully your application config.
Problems occurs because I missed table and column annotations as well.
In my application config I have something like:
$metaData->setStrategy(new \Engine\Db\Model\Annotations\Metadata());
so Phalcon was looking for annotations in my model files, more info about this you can find there:
https://forum.phalconphp.com/discussion/1933/column-types-for-model-annotations
Happy New Year

Call save() in model while using Propel Versionable

I just switched an existing Model to be Versionable.
After debugging quite a lot, I now realized that there are a quite a few cases that I use $this->save() in the model quite a few times and that this finally causing duplicate entries in the Version table.
Is the only way to prevent this by removing the -save() methods out of the model (I tried it out, it works) or is there another, more simple way to prevent the internal loop during version-creation and its saving?
Since you don't specify a version of Propel, I'm assuming the stable version 1.x, though the following might well apply to 2.x, which is in alpha5 at the time of writing.
As per this documentation, you can specify when it is appropriate to save a new version of model rows using this method:
class Book extends BaseBook
{
public function isVersioningNecessary($con = null)
{
return $this->getISBN() !== null && parent::isVersioningNecessary($con);
}
}
If that method returns false, the last version is overwritten; if it is true, a new version is created.
(The docs are slightly wrong in that I assume the parent should take a $con parameter: missing there, fixed here).

Changing the behaviour of view in Codeigniter

I am using codeigniter for a project that is used by a variety of companies.
The default version of our software is up and running and works fine - however some of our customers want slightly different view files for their instance of the system.
Ideally what I would like to do is set a variable (for example VIEW_SUFFIX) and whenever a view file is loaded it would first check if there was a suffix version available if there was use that instead.
For example if the system had a standard view file called 'my_view.php' but one client had a VIEW_SUFFIX of 'client_1' - whenever I called $this->load->view('my_view') if the VIEW_SUFFIX was set it would first check if my_view_client_1 existed (and if it did use that) or if not use the default my_view.php.
I hope that my question is clear enough... If anyone has done this before or can think of a way to do it I would really appreciate it.
EDIT:
Ideally I would like a solution that works without me changing every place that I am calling the view files. Firstly because there are a few files that may want different client versions and also because the view files are called from a lot of controllers
I had a similar requirement for which I created a helper function. Among other things, this function can check for a suffix before loading the specified view file. This function can check for the suffix and check if the file exists before loading it.
Unfortunately, the file checking logic would be a bit brittle. As an alternative, you can implement a MY_Loader class that will override the basic CI_Loader class.
Something like this in your application/core/MY_Loader.php:
class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {
protected function _ci_load($_ci_data)
{
// Copy paste code from CI with your modifications to check prefix.
}
}
Could you not do this
// some method of creating $client
// probably created at login
$_SESSION['client'] = 'client_1';
$client = (isset($_SESSION['client'])) ? $_SESSION['client'] : '';
$this->load->view("your_view{$client}", $data);

Can not find cakephp model

I am having extreme issues trying to get cakephp to find a model. i been working on this project for 4 months now and created ton's of models but for some reason, cake can not find this model. This is how it is set up at minimum
app/controllers/arbitrations_controller.php
<?php
class ArbitrationsController extends AppController {
var $name = 'Arbitrations';
}
app/models/arbitration.php
<?php
class Arbitration extends AppModel {
var $name = 'Arbitration';
}
database name: arbitrations
Error Message
Controller::paginate() - can't find model Arbitration in controller
ArbitrationsController [CORE\cake\libs\controller\controller.php, line
1102]
I've tried clearing tmp/cache/models and tmp/cache/persistent
I got it to work. I just deleted my arbitrations_controller.php file and recreated and it worked. Must be some type of glitch or something. I think it may have had something to do with even going about deleting the tmp files and recreating the files again.
Dont know what it was, but it wasted 3 hours of my life.
I just set this up using CakePHP v1.3.x and it worked out of the box using scaffolding. A couple of things you can try:
Double check the spelling on everything. Arbitration can be easily
misspelled.
Add the var $uses = array('Arbitration') to the top of the
controller and see if that changes anything.
Double check the model spellings in the controller
$this->Arbitration->recursive = -1;
If all of those things are set and working as expected it should work. Another thing to try is to load it in a clean app to see if it works in a stand alone environment.

symfony admin generator form object

Hey guys, I've used the Symfony admin generator for a module.
Everything is working, but when the form for my model is instantiated, I need to pass in my own option.
I could do this myself by overriding the executeNew, executeCreate functions in myModuleActions.class.php (which extends myModuleAutoActions).
But I was hoping for a neater solution?
Perhaps overriding one of the configuration classes is the way to go. I basically need to add the current sf_user object ($this->getUser) as an "sf_user" option for the form, to avoid using sfContext in the myModuleForm.
Any ideas?
Welcome to Stack Overflow, jolly18.
I would just use sfContext. For example, in my app, I have a subform that creates a new Note object and assigns the user to it. In my form's configure() I have:
$new_note->setAuthor(sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getUsername());
I see the book calls this "The fastest but ugly way" because it makes "a big coupling between the form and the context, making the testing and reusability more difficult." But in practice... this works well and I can move on.
if module was generated using admin-generator :
in apps/backend/modules/books/actions/actions.class.php
modify: in
executeEdit(){
//leave rest unchanged
$values=array('activity_id'=>$activity_id, 'book_id'=>$book_id, 'todo_id'=>$todo_id, 'user_id'=>$this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->getId());
$this->form = new TabelBooksForm($TabelBooks, $values);
}
modify: in
executeNew(){
//leave rest unchanged
$values=array('activity_id'=>$activity_id, 'book_id'=>$book_id, 'todo_id'=>$todo_id, 'user_id'=>$this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->getId());
$this->form = new TabelBooksForm(array(), $values);
}
in TabelBooksForm.class.php
public function configure()
{
if ($this->isNew()) {
$this->setWidget('book_id', new sfWidgetFormInputHidden());
$this->setDefault('book_id', $this->getOption('book_id'));
$this->setWidget('activity_id', new sfWidgetFormInputHidden());
$this->setDefault('activity_id', $this->getOption('activity_id'));
$this->setWidget('todo_id', new sfWidgetFormInputHidden());
$this->setDefault('todo_id', $this->getOption('todo_id'));
}
}
i've been facing this problem for a while but symfony always surprises me with some neat code that i was not aware of.
I assume you'r using sfPropelPlugin, quite standar, if you checkout the code generated in cache (note: this code will be available once you tried to open the module from the browser, so firts try to look at it so we dont get in trouble :P) you may see something like:
cache/{application_name}(generally frontend or backend)/dev(enviromnemt)/autoModule_name( look here for the module)/:
lib
action
The action folder contains an action.class.php file that defines all actions generated by the generator (executeNew, Edit, Create, Update, etc). If you look a the implementation of executeNew and executeEdit, you can see that they ask a configuration instace the actual form to display, here is an example:
public function executeNew(sfWebRequest $request)
{
$this->form = $this->configuration->getForm();
$this->PaymentOrder = $this->form->getObject();
}
The configuration var containt an instance of a configuration class defined in the lib folder i mentioned earlier. That class tweaks the form to fit the object needs (generally by setting a fresh object instance).
So here comes the magic, the classes you see in your module extend from those in cache, so by pure logic, if you modifi the getForm() method in the main module/lib folder to fit your needs, you wont have to hack forms by getting user valuer where you shouldn't.
Hope this helps!

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