Re: a description about some cakephp improvement points

On Feb 25, 10:10 pm, Marcelo Andrade <mfandr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "The framework is inadequate to create new records in
> tables that have only one autoincrement (or serial) field"

If I'm understanding this correctly, this is perfectly fine as far as
CakePHP is concerned. In fact, most new database tables (and many
CakePHP tutorials out there) created to take advantage of CakePHP's DB
automagicness almost always use an autoincrementing field for the
primary key. So that is not an issue at all.

> "The framework requires a database that follows a predefined
> convention.  So it's impracticable to use it with existing
> databases from legacy systems.

This isn't true. CakePHP can use pre-existing tables just fine. For
example, one can simply specify the table name to use in the model
class: var $useTable = 'PreExistingTableName';
You can also define many other model attributes to allow CakePHP to
work with pre-existing databases. Many of these attributes are listed
in the CakePHP manual: http://book.cakephp.org/view/71/Model-Attributes
Also, model associations are flexible in that you can do things like
specify custom queries when finding, deleting, and inserting records
if you need to.
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