To allow CakePHP 3 to add entries to many-to-many join tables when creating or patching entities, the names of the associations must be added to the array of accessible concrete properties on the model. The documentation does mention this fact eventually, as a note in the “Patching HasMany and BelongsToMany” section, but not as part of … [Read more…]
I recently added the Laravel-Localization package (with Laravel 5.2) to a project I’m working on. Initial setup went smoothly, and I was impressed with how well things worked essentially out of the box. Then I tried to test my routes. I had previously made a test case that ran through all of my public routes and asserted … [Read more…]
I just ran through Laravel’s intermediate quickstart tutorial. On the whole it was rather well put together and worked with as little or as much copying and pasting as you felt like using. Here I’m just recording a few notes for future reference about non-obvious things I encountered. Error messages for simple typos One interesting … [Read more…]
Yesterday I looked into adding a key-value pair such as "tag_ids": [1, 2, 3] to a JSON object returned by a serialized CakePHP view, for Bookmarks belonging to many Tags. My solution produces the desired result, but involves the execution of a new database query for every bookmark, on top of the one that retrieved the record in the first place. This is not … [Read more…]
Today I was struggling with how to get CakePHP to return a JSON representation of a model, including a simple array of the foreign-key ids from the join table that specifies a mutual belongsToMany relationship (formerly, hasAndBelongsToMany or HABTM). For a concrete example, I wanted to build on the Bookmarker tutorial by creating an API endpoint to … [Read more…]