CakePHP 5 get body data of POST request
I am creating a REST API using CakePHP 5. I have a POST function that should receive the data from postman and input it to the database. The problem is I am not receiving the data in the request. The…
Html entities converrsion in onchange function in php
When I try to pass variables to check_holiday_dates_on_application I want them to be surrounded by ' in the site html. This is what my code looks like: 'onchange' => 'return check_holiday_dates_on_application('' . $this->Url->webroot('') . '', '' . $token . '','…
PHP-Constant expression contains invalid operations
I'm new to PHP and having issue with database.php. Basically i'm trying to retrieve the password to connect the DB from PHP. The password stored in AWS secret Manager and have a code to get the secret. This is working…
Laravel – Using headers to avoid unused arguments in function
In order to effectively use ACL in the system I am currently working on, I would need to send the same 2 URI parameters which are ids of the resources I want to check the users access against. In order…
Should CakePHP 4 always eager load associations?
In my CakePHP 4 project, I have two models with a one-to-many relationship between them: <?php namespace AppModelTable; use CakeORMTable; class ContentsTable extends Table { public function initialize(array $config): void { parent::initialize($config); $this->setTable('contents'); $this->setPrimaryKey('id'); // more relations here $this->belongsTo('ContentTypes', […
CakePHP built in web server: can you specify the PHP binary that's used – PHP Versions
In CakePHP there is a built in web server that can be used for development. This can be started with bin/cake server which then serves the application by default on http://localhost:8765 In my case I have an old CakePHP 3.8.13…
VARBINARY field in CakePHP 4 – Mysql
I have a varbinary(200) NOT NULL field on a table. Let's say the table is called users and the field is called secret. In CakePHP 3.X, accessing $user->secret; after retrieving one row of the table would give me a string.…
CakePHP 4 datetime migrations error 'Incorrect datetime value'
I am developing an app in PHP 7.4 (cakephp 4.4). I am trying to use migrations to properly update my tables using cakephp bake migrations feature, but I have an issue with datetime columns. Here is my code : bin/cake…
CakePHP 4 checkbox not outputting value
I am using CakePHP 4.3. According to the documentation, the option value can be used to set the value of the "value" HTML attribute. Here's my code: <?php foreach ($items as $item) { ?> <?= $this->Form->checkbox('add_' . $item->id, [ 'id'…
UnlockField not working in CakePHP for array
I have a form that has to handle some elements as part of an array. echo $this->Form->control('config.sys_file_id', ['type' => 'number']); echo $this->Form->control('click_enlarge', ['type' => 'checkbox']); echo $this->Form->control('config.max_width', ['type' => 'number']); echo $this->Form->control('config.max_height', ['type' => 'number']); echo $this->Form->control('config.fixed_width', ['type' => 'number']);…