Re: MVC-way to obtain common data formatting

Hi Jon
thanks for your kind reply but that's just what I'd avoid: I'm trying
to accomplish an automatic way to achieve that result, I know it's not
right to use a model function and I asked for an MVC and non-
validation-breaking way..

On 26 Ago, 11:23, Jon Bennett <jmbenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nicola.
>
> > I'm trying to understand if and in which way could be possible to
> > achieve such a result. Maybe I've explained the wrong way: I need to
> > format some common fields like boolean value and achieve this adding
> > an afterFind(results) callback in the app_model.php. I'd like to know
> > if this is the best way to accomplish this 'cause I noticed that (of
> > course) it causes problems when trying to edit something: the datas
> > are formatted as I requested in the app_model but this causes
> > validation problems (super simple example: boolean humanized as "Yes/
> > No" and no more as 1/0).
>
> I would have thought the only time you need to display 1 or 0 as yes
> or no is in the view. You're quite right that if you adjust the data
> in app_model, it will break your DB.
>
> I have a Config value set in my bootstrap, and output that. eg:
>
> // bootstrap.php
> Configure::write('yesno', array(0=>'No', 1=>'Yes');
>
> // View
> Configure::read('yesno.'.$row[$modelClass]['field']); // outputs 'Yes'
> for 1, and 'No' for 0.
>
> hth
>
> Jon
>
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>
> jon bennett
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