I recently needed to add Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers to resources on an API developed with CakePHP. There’s a good description of how to accomplish this from ThinkingMedia in 2015, but it uses DispatcherFilters, which have since been deprecated in favour of Middleware. The $request and $response objects available to middleware have different interfaces than those retrieved from the event data in the … [Read more…]
I’m working on a CakePHP-based app that has multiple abstract base controller classes that inherit from AppController. The majority of the concrete controllers inherit from one of these abstract classes. I recently added the CakePHP/Acl plugin to the app, and was presented with the error
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Exception: Cannot instantiate abstract class App\Controller\MyAbstractController in [/apppath/vendor/cakephp/acl/src/AclExtras.php, line 433] |
when I tried to use the bin/cake acl_extras aco_sync command to generate ACOs … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]