Re: Default Values and Randomly Get a Line

Sorry for the double post.

I have studied the example more in detail.

1. created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
2. modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL

It looks like CakePHP is automatically setting those values when add or edit actions are executed. The first one is perfect. The second one in my case would be the date when the item is posted (randomly read from the db and posted to twitter). But, as I set status=1 when posting, the modified date also gets set. So, that's just a different field name.

2010/11/26 Giorgio <anothernetfellow@gmail.com>

Ok, that's perfect.

But now that i have an array with all posts that satisfy that condition, howto get a random one? Should i normally work with php here?

In the Blog example (tutorial) we have 2 fields (time fields) that are automatically set by mysql. Is this a good practice? Why not set everything with php? In my case i have to add an added_date (that will be the date when the db row is created) and a posted_date (that will be set when the script will randomly hit that line, also changing from 1 to 0 the status value).

Thanks

2010/11/26 Salines <nikola.paradzik@gmail.com>

Why you complicated?
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@giorgio,

for update /change status field in db table use
$this->Post->saveField('status','0');
or
$this->Post->saveField('status','1');

and select all active posts

$this->Post->find('All',array('conditions'=>array('status' => '1')));

On 26 stu, 13:40, Almudena Garcia <garcia.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "SELECT * from table where status=1"
>
> This query will be something like:
>
> $options['fields'] = array(table.*);
> $options['conditions'] = array('table.status'=>1);
> $this->find('all',$options);
>
> Regards :)
>

> 2010/11/26 Giorgio <anothernetfel...@gmail.com>

>
> > Hi,
>
> > wow. I'm testing so much on CakePHP. I absolutely love MVC frameworks.
>
> > Today i've run into a new problem. I've created an application, but:
>
> > - Db fields are id, name, text, date, status. id and date are set by mysql.
> > Name and text should be entered by the user. Status should be set to 0 for
> > every new entry. How can i do that? Of course, i can set a default value in
> > mysql, but if i would set it from the application?
>
> > - Then, I need a page that if opened will output a random text (WHERE
> > status = 1). In a normal php script i'd use something like:
>
> > $query = "SELECT * from table where status=1";
>
> > $result = @mysql_query($query, db);
>
> > while ($row = @mysql_fetch_array($result))
>
> >     $numbers[] = $row[id];
>
> > And then get a random element from the numbers array. How to translate this
> > in cakephp?
>
> > Thanks
>
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