Archive for the ‘cakePHP Interview Questions’ Category
Magical Feature of cakePHP – findBy
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 13:39 No CommentsThese magic functions can be used as a shortcut to search your tables by a certain field. Just add the name of the field (in CamelCase format) to the end of these functions, and supply the criteria for that field as the first parameter.
PHP5 findBy Example
$this->Product->findByOrderStatus(‘3′); //Product.order_status = 3
$this->Recipe->findByType(‘Cookie’); //Recipe.type = ‘Cookie’
$this->User->findByLastName(‘Anderson’); //User.last_name = ‘Anderson’
$this->Cake->findById(7); [...]
What is meant by MVC ? cakePHP interview Question
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:46 No CommentsMODEL VIEW CONTROLLER, it is a software architecture, used to isolates business logic from presentation logic. cakephp is based on mvc pattern.
What are 3 important parts of MVC?
1. The Model represents the application data
2. The View renders a presentation of model data
3. The Controller handles and [...]
Explain about the naming Conventions in cakePHP – cakePHP Interview Question
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 16:43 No CommentsTable names are plural and lowercased.
Model names are singular and CamelCased: ModelName.
Model filenames are singular and underscored: model_name.php.
Controller names are plural and CamelCased with *Controller* appended: ControllerNamesController.
Controller filenames are plural and underscored with *controller* appended: controller_names_controller.php
Associations should use the ModelName, and the order should match the order of the foreignKeys: var $belongsTo = ‘User’;
Foreign [...]
The role of CakePHP
Monday, February 22, 2010 21:38 1 CommentCakePHP was critical to the project’s success. Here I emphasize what we consider are some of the main advantages to using the Framework.
It offers many useful, ready-to-use tools. CakePHP prevents us from having to “reinvent the wheel” every time. For common problems that must be solved when using an application of medium complexity, CakePHP already [...]
CakePHP : Change view file from controller
Monday, February 22, 2010 21:08 No CommentsWith CakePHP, the controller core automatically detects the file name of the view file which needs to be rendered from a controller action. You might want to reuse an existent view for an action or specify a different file name.
For example, if you have a controller named “Users” and you execute a controller action named [...]
CakePHP : SELECT BETWEEN query syntax
Sunday, February 21, 2010 19:06 No Commentsreturn $this->LogfileRecord->find(‘all’, ‘conditions’ => array(‘LogfileRecord.date between ? and ?’ => array($start_date, $end_date)));
ife (ifempty) function with clearbox in cakePHP
Monday, February 15, 2010 13:31 No CommentsI use it in this way.
//If member_image will empty then set ‘no-photo.jpg’ as default image
$thumb_photo = ife($member['Member']['member_image'], $member['Member']['member_image'], "no-photo.jpg");
Optional:
Then call it in the image tag and apply clearbox if you want;
<a rel="clearbox" href="<?php echo $GLOBALS['ABSOLUTE']['PATH'];?>/img/members_photos/<?php echo $thumb_photo;?>" target="_blank">
<?php echo $html->image(‘members_photos/thumbs/’.$thumb_photo, array(‘alt’ => ”, ‘border’ => ‘0′, ‘width’ => ‘141′, ‘height’ => ‘137′));?>
</a>
fileExistsInPath cakePHP function to check if File/Image Exists in valid Path
Saturday, February 13, 2010 13:01 No Commentsfunction deletephotograph($id){
//Get File/Image name
$data = $this->Propphotograph->find(‘first’, array(‘conditions’ => array(‘Propphotograph.id’ => $id), ‘fields’ => array(‘Propphotograph.photograph’)));
$image_name = $data['Propphotograph']['photograph'];
// Use fileExistsInPath() function to check valid File/Image Path
$thumbPath = ‘img/props_photographs/thumbs/’.$image_name.”;
$imagePath = ‘img/props_photographs/’.$image_name.”;
if (fileExistsInPath($imagePath)){unlink($imagePath);} // Delete Image if it exists
if (fileExistsInPath($thumbPath)){unlink($thumbPath);} // Delete Image Thumb [...]
Inserting multiple rows in cakephp
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 13:15 1 CommentI had a situation where I needed to iterate through a list of items and insert new rows for each. I quickly discovered that if you insert an item and then immediately insert another, the item that is inserted next doesn’t insert at all. Instead the previously inserted row was being updated. For example:
$items = [...]
The cake is still rising
Thursday, February 4, 2010 23:44 No CommentsRecent weeks have seen a few changes in the development team, as well as some clarification of the roadmap for CakePHP future releases. We’d like to thank those leaving for all their hard work and contributions. For those sticking around, you are in for a treat!
CakePHP Project Manager Garrett Woodworth and Developer Nate Abele have [...]


