Re: using CakeSchema from the app

That's nice to hear :)
I had already started taking a look at the shell code and it looked to
me as well that most of the code could be shared to be used also inside
a controller.

It'd be nice to isolate that code so that it can be used in the shell
code and also in the controller code. From what I saw it basically
boils down to copy that code and to avoid outputting to the standard
output, am I right?

I'd really love to see your code when it's done; probably also trying to
come up with something re-usable for installation and updating
functionalities (a plugin?) for cake!

cheers
Lorenzo

Jamie wrote:
> It can't be done "out of the box", since, like you mentioned, the only
> tool that the Cake core comes with for managing schemas is the shell
> class. But the schema shell just uses the CakeSchema model to do most
> of the heavy lifting. So you could just make a SchemaController that
> uses the CakeSchema model and then use that to handle schema updating.
> A lot of the code in the schema shell can be transferred into a
> controller with minimal changes - the database updating code is pretty
> straightforward.
>
> I've actually got something like this planned that I hope to get to in
> the next week or so; I'll gladly share my results once I'm done.
>
> - Jamie
>
> On Jan 24, 10:31 am, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I found
>>
>> http://book.cakephp.org/view/735/Generating-and-using-Schema-files
>>
>> which is cool to migrate database schemas with cake console; but I'd
>> like to migrate and apply schema (e.g., for installation and update
>> pages) from the application... can it be done?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> Lorenzo
>>

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