milesjohnson

However, my post today will be on the RFC suggestion for built in getters/setters. To keep it blunt, I really dislike the C# approach... it's, just not very PHP. Just seems odd to have floating curly blocks with a "get" and "set" in it, with no real defined scope block. On top of that, the "property" keyword is way too complicated for what it is trying to achieve. The one thing I do agree with though, is the readonly modifier. My suggestion is loosely based on the Traceur Compiler by Google syntax (they use get/set keywords instead of function, within the class). Continue reading...

More times then none when working with a database, you need a general purpose method for grabbing fields from a row that matches an id. Cake has built in magic methods based on the table column that do just that, for example findById() or findBySlug(), but sometimes it grabs associated data that you do not want. Below is a basic method that you can place in your AppModel to grab a row based on its id, with optional parameters for restricting what fields to grab or what associations to contain. Continue reading...