Re: Avoid converting date/datetime fields to Cake/Time instances with CakePHP 3

There are a few ways to accomplish this:

First one:

// ArticlesTable.php

public function _initializeSchema($schema) {

    $schema->columnType('my_date_column', 'string');

}

That will remove all the converting back and forth for that specific column. It will still be a date in the database, but cake will always treat it as a string

Second One:

// bootstrap.php

\Cake\Database\Type::build('date', 'Cake\Database\Type');

This other option will disable the converting in the whole application.... But in any case, what are the reasons for disabling it?

On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:17:37 PM UTC+2, Aday Talavera wrote:

It seems that the only way is to change column schema type from 'date' to 'string'.

Maybe could be a good idea to have a function to do such changes on an easy way.

El miércoles, 13 de mayo de 2015, 21:33:08 (UTC+1), Aday Talavera escribió:

First off, sorry for the "question spam". I'm just posting all issues of the last two weeks in a short period of time. I hope that this isn't disturbing anyone.

While trying to figure how to use combine with collections and entities (is in other thread) I didn't found an easy way to avoid date / datetime fields of DB been converted to Time instances.

$query->hydrate(false);

Didn't work, date / datetime field is also converted to a Cake/Time instance

There exists an easy way to avoid that conversion?

I was forced to do something like this in the collection to use combine or indexBy groupBy collection functions with date fields:

            ->each(function ($entity){
                $entity->dateStr = $entity->date->toDateString();
                return $entity;
            })
            ->combine('dateStr', 'id')
            ->indexBy('dateStr')
            ->GroupBy('dateStr')

Cheers.

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