Re: how to map enums with strings

set the "translation" array in the model (MyModel->myFieldValues) and
in afterFind callback change the value of the enum for the string,
enums are evil btw :)
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Marcin Domanski
http://kabturek.info

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:09, aman batra <batra_aman2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> actually i wanted something which could map the things and what i have
> done is that i created an array which is describing what i want
> like :-
> $s = array('Google'=>'G','Yahoo'=>'Y','MSN'=>'M');
>
> On Mar 29, 8:38 pm, "Dr. Loboto" <drLob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From point of SQL queries enum values are strings. So you will retrive
>> 'G', 'Y' and 'M' as well as should save 'G', 'Y' and 'M'. Anywhere you
>> want to display 'Google', 'Yahoo' and 'MSN' instead of actual values
>> you should change then manually. Cake do not provide anything for it.
>>
>> On Mar 29, 5:35 pm, aman batra <batra_aman2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > I have in my Db table a column agent which takes the value as enum
>> > ('G','Y','M') and where
>> > G = google
>> > Y = yahoo
>> > M = msn
>> > How should i map the strings google, yahoo, etc which will be the
>> > output of my function to map as G,Y,etc so that my Db query recognise
>> > it and saves it to the database.
>>
>>
> >
>

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