Re: Handling spatial data in CakePHP

On Jan 5, 3:01 pm, ehrlichja <ehrlic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a database with a field for spatial data and a cakephp
> interface for it. In MySQL I can save the data by doing:
>
> INSERT INTO nodes (Location) VALUES (GeomFromText('POINT(42.450071
> -76.487664)'))
>
> How can I make Cake take the latitude and longitude from a web form
> and insert it in this manner? I made a model that reads spatial data
> but I can't figure out how to make it write in spatial format.
>
> Thanks for any insight.

look in the cake source/test cases for any example using $db-
>expression

your code should be similar, something like

$this->save(array('lat' => $db-
>expression("GeomFromText('POINT(42.450071, -76.487664)')"));

rgrds,

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