Re: MVC-way to obtain common data formatting

@ Bert: yes that's the problem, I'm looking for a way to accomplish in
an automatic way and not only for boolean fields (which aren't
difficult to implement with an ad-hoc behavior)

On 26 Ago, 15:46, Bert Van den Brande <cyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't really understand the problem you present.
>
> Either you display a model field as a read-only piece of information
> in the view, and then there is no problem with data being updated.
>
> Or you display model data in a form that can be edited, and in case of
> for example the boolean you provide a dropdown list or use a radio
> button that displays a readable string to the user but holds the raw
> data as the value.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:46 PM, ark0n3<nicolabeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> >> --
>
> >> jon bennett
> >> w:http://www.jben.net/
> >> iChat (AIM): jbendotnet Skype: jon-bennett
>
>
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