CakePHP find call result in many "SET CHARACTER SET utf8" queries. Why? - mysql

What is the reason for CakePHP to do the query "SET CHARACTER SET utf8" 38 times in a row for a simple find("all") (recursive property default at 0) ?
I use MySQL as database and let's say I create a users table which looks like this:
CREATE TABLE users (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
username char(50) UNIQUE,
password char(40),
post_id INT,
created DATETIME,
modified DATETIME,
CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY (id),
CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES posts (id)
ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=INNODB;
and a posts table which looks like this:
CREATE TABLE posts (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
title VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
content TEXT NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=INNODB;
In my users_controller.php, I write in an action:
$log = $this->User->getDataSource()->getLog(false, false);
$this->User->find("all",
array(
'conditions' => array('id' => 3),
'recursive' => 0
));
debug($log);
I haven't tested this with the data above, but showed the tables above because they are similar to my current database. I use 25 tables with engine=innodb.
The debug is an array of 41 queries, where 2 queries retrieves the user and the post. The other 39 queries are identical and looks as follows:
Array
(
[log] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[query] => SET CHARACTER SET utf8;
[error] =>
[affected] => 0
[numRows] =>
[took] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[query] => SET CHARACTER SET utf8;
[error] =>
[affected] => 0
[numRows] =>
[took] => 0
)
.
.
.
[38] => Array
(
[query] => SET CHARACTER SET utf8;
[error] =>
[affected] => 0
[numRows] =>
[took] => 0
)
Is this supposed to happen? In my config/database.php file, it doesn't matter if I set encoding to 'utf8' or not. I do want 'utf8', but I don't want 38 unnecessary queries.
var $default = array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'mylogin',
'password' => 'mypassword',
'database' => 'mydatabase',
'encoding' => 'utf8'
);

this sort of thing is expected in debug, cake uses the information to work. when you turn off debug it should all go away

Problem solved. It was a mistake from my part. The constructor in AppModel had the line:
$this->query( "SET CHARACTER SET utf8;" );

Related

CakePHP: find associated data with contain

I'm reading the CakePHP documentation but I'm not sure if I need to use some other methods than find. Example:
in my controller I want to provide a filtered list of Orders where the state field of the related table OrderStates is "Open":
$orders = $this->ItemsDeliveryNotes->Orders->find('list', [
'limit' => 200,
'conditions' => ['Orders.order_state.state' => 'Open'],
'contain' => ['OrderStates']
]);
but it says it doesn't find the column order_state.
Here the definition of the table Orders:
Creation
CREATE TABLE orders (
id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
customer_id int(11),
orderNumber varchar(255) NOT NULL,
orderDate date,
order_state_id int(11),
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY order_state_id (order_state_id),
CONSTRAINT orders_ibfk_1 FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customers (id) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION,
CONSTRAINT orders_ibfk_2 FOREIGN KEY (order_state_id) REFERENCES order_states (id) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
Entity
class Order extends Entity
{
protected $_accessible = [
'orderNumber' => true,
'orderDate' => true,
'customer_id' => true,
'order_state_id' => true,
'customer' => true,
'order_state' => true,
'items' => true
];
}
Table
public function initialize(array $config)
{
parent::initialize($config);
$this->setTable('orders');
$this->setDisplayField('orderNumber');
$this->setPrimaryKey('id');
$this->belongsTo('Customers', [
'foreignKey' => 'customer_id'
]);
$this->belongsTo('OrderStates', [
'foreignKey' => 'order_state_id'
]);
$this->hasMany('Items', [
'foreignKey' => 'order_id'
]);
}
public function buildRules(RulesChecker $rules)
{
$rules->add($rules->existsIn(['order_state_id'], 'OrderStates'));
$rules->add($rules->existsIn(['customer_id'], 'Customers'));
return $rules;
}
and OrderStates:
Creation
CREATE TABLE order_states (
id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
state varchar(255) NOT NULL,
badge varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
Entity
class OrderState extends Entity
{
protected $_accessible = [
'state' => true,
'badge' => true
];
}
Table
public function initialize(array $config)
{
parent::initialize($config);
$this->setTable('order_states');
$this->setDisplayField('state');
$this->setPrimaryKey('id');
}
The column order_state is accessible within Orders and I also added the related table (OrderStates) to the contain option. What I still miss?
Here a working syntax to use:
$orders = $this->ItemsDeliveryNotes->Orders->find('list', [ 'limit' => 200 ])
->contain('OrderStates')->where(['state' => 'Open']);
#mark the issue in your conditions for contained entity. please do confirm which cakephp version you are using.
Here is the example to use the conditions for contained table
Passing Conditions to Contain
// Prior to 3.5.0 you would use contain(['Comments' => function () { ... }])
$query = $articles->find()->contain('Comments', function (Query $q) {
return $q
->select(['body', 'author_id'])
->where(['Comments.approved' => true]);
});
Note: Make sure you have included use Cake\ORM\Query; in namespaces section.
For the more detials you can refer to documentation here. https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/retrieving-data-and-resultsets.html#passing-conditions-to-contain
For your situation it could be something like this.
$orders = $this->ItemsDeliveryNotes->Orders->find('list', [ 'limit' => 200 ])->contain('OrderStates', function (Query $q) { return $q->where(['state' => 'Open']); });

cakePHP : populating 2 fields with the same foreign key and write to database

I have a players table and a videos table. In the videos table I have 2 fields (PlayerA and PlayerB) and the values have to come from the players table. But when I have 2 foreign keys in the table videos with the name player_id it says that I have a duplicate.
Now I can only store 1 player Name to the database.
Players table:
1 player_id int(11)
2 player_firstname varchar(45)
3 player_surname varchar(45)
4 player_birthDate date
5 player_turnedPro year(4)
6 player_nickname varchar(45)
7 player_nationality varchar(45)
8 player_highestBreak varchar(45)
9 player_highestRanking int(11)
10 player_centuryBreaks int(11)
11 player_careerWinnings varchar(55)
12 player_worldChampion varchar(45)
13 player_image varchar(255)
14 player_category varchar(45)
Videos table:
1 video_id int(11)
2 video_title varchar(45)
3 video_date timestamp
4 video_scoreA tinyint(4)
5 video_scoreB tinyint(4)
6 video_url varchar(255)
7 tournament_id int(11)
8 timeline_id int(11)
9 player_id int(11) => PLAYER A
10 player_id int(11) => PLAYER B => here it says that I have a duplicate
Is there a possibility to store values from a players table, that are populated in 2 fields, in a Videos table?
Update
videos table:
1 video_id int(11)
2 video_title varchar(45)
3 video_date timestamp
4 video_scoreA tinyint(4)
5 video_scoreB tinyint(4)
6 video_url varchar(255)
7 tournament_id int(11)
8 timeline_id int(11)
players_videos table:
1 videos_players_id int(11)
2 video_id int(11)
3 player_id int(11)
Video Model:
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Player' =>
array(
'className' => 'Player',
'joinTable' => 'players_videos',
'foreignKey' => 'video_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'player_id',
'unique' => true,
)
);
Player Model:
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Video' =>
array(
'className' => 'Video',
'joinTable' => 'players_videos',
'foreignKey' => 'player_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'video_id',
'unique' => true,
)
);
VideosController in the add action :
$players = $this->Video->Player->find('list', array('fields'=>'player_firstname', 'player_surname'));
$this->set(compact('tournaments', 'timelines', 'players'));
add.ctp View:
echo $this->Form->input('Player.Player');
index.ctp View:
<?php foreach($players as $player): ?>
<?php //echo h($player['player_id']); ?>
<p><?php echo $this->Html->link($player['player_id'], array('controller' => 'players', 'action' => 'view', $player['player_id'])); ?></p>
<?php endforeach; ?>
I do not recommend this approach. The HABTM association is a better alternative for this case. You can check the documentation here: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#hasandbelongstomany-habtm
But... what you asked for:
In your Video model:
public $hasMany = array(
'Player A' => array(
'className' => 'Player',
'foreignKey' => 'player_a_id'
),
'Player B' => array(
'className' => 'Player',
'foreignKey' => 'player_b_id'
)
)
In your Player model:
public $belongsTo = array(
'Video' => array(
'className' => 'Video',
'foreignKey' => 'video_id'
)
);
Rename your columns to player_a_id and player_b_id.
You cannot have two fields/columns with the same name in one table. You must give them different names. (If you wanted one in particular, how would you ask for it?) Eg call them player_a and player_b.
A foreign key column/field does not have to have the same name as the column/field it references. In SQL you would write
create table Videos
(....
player_a int(11),
player_b int(11),
FOREIGN KEY player_a REFERENCES Players (player_id),
FOREIGN KEY player_b REFERENCES Players (player_id),
...)

Accessing associated models of HABTM relationships via bindModel() w/o recursion

The Problem In A Nutshell
I want to retrieve data from Model A that HABTM Model B via a find() operation in Model B's controller without relying on extensive recursion.
$this->ModelB->bindModel('hasMany' => array('ModelAsModelBs'));
$this->ModelB->find('all', array('fields' => array('ModelA.*'))); //cond'ts below
I'm aware that bindModel() is required to do this, but I can't seem to get access to the associated model fields (ie. not just the HABTM table's fields, but the actual associated model) without multiple recursion.
It occurs to me that I may also be fundamentally misunderstanding something about how model relationships are supposed to interact, or be designed, or retrieved, etc.—in short, I recognize that the reason I may not be succeeding is that this may not be something I should be doing, henh. If this is so, I'd be equally happy learning how to do this better, because I frequently deal with very elaborate model relationships (I mostly do web development for academia and on-line course material/remote research).
Concrete Example / Actual Circumstances
The database has these tables, with id's as you'd expect:
Users
Courses
Modules
UsersCourses
UsersModules
CoursesModules
The model query I am trying execute is happening within the Users controller, and looks like this:
class Users extends AppController {
public function doSomething() {
$hasOne = array( 'hasOne' => array('CoursesModules','UsersModules'));
$this->User->Course->Module->bindModel($hasOne);
$conditions = array('`CoursesModules`.`course_id`' => $courseIds, //this is a known constraint within the app
'NOT' => array('`UsersModules`.`module_id` = `CoursesModules`.`module_id`' ));
$options = array( 'fields' => array('Module', 'Course.*'), // Note the attempt to get Course model information
'conditions' => $conditions,
'recursive' => 0);
$modules = $this->User->Course->Module->find('all', $options);
$this->set(compact('modules'));
}
}
This query results in:
Error: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1051 Unknown table 'Course'
But neither can I use bindModel() to connect Courses to Modules. This strikes me as strange since the association path is Users->Courses->Modules. I can bring recursion up a notch, but it causes all sorts of hell that requires a lot of unbind() and also pulls a completely absurd amount of data.
A second oddity is that if I remove the Course.* from the fields list, the above query executes but doesn't work as I'd expect; I think this is correctly asking for all Modules listed in CoursesModules that are not also in UsersModules. Such data does exist in my records, yet isn't retrieved by this.
I realize I can get course_ids from the CoursesModules and then just do another find to get the Course model data, but that's a) not very Cake-like and b) a pain because I'd really appreciate having access to $modules['Module']['Course'] in the rendered view file.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Or, haha, god forbid, help me just build this MySQL query (I am all thumbs with MySQL joins)? Truly appreciated, thanks!
UPDATE
#Kai: To set up the relationships I set up my tables and baked'em. Worth noting, perhaps, is that I have a fairly basic grasp of MySQL and generally do everything through PhpMyAdmin. As for generating the initial Cake files, I use cake bake all and then modified things as I went. The SQL for the tables and the $hasAndBelongsToMany arrays from the respective models are posted at the end.
As to why I chose hasOne... I also assumed hasMany; using this relationship consistly generated 'column not found' errors from the tables I was binding (didn't matter which column). Meanwhile, the obviously wrong choice of hasOne worked, to some extent.
And finally, I have had a lurking suspicion that this containable behavior business might be what I was after, but I don't really understand it. As briefly as I can, this is the context for these models and the sorts of queries I'm trying to execute:
I'm building a program for a university faculty that will basically let profs have some online coursework. But the coursework (ie. modules) might be shared between different classes (ie. courses), and students might be in any or all classes. An additional constraint is that a student may have a choice of which modules she'll do in a given course—the prof may offer five of which they'll have to complete any three. So, when a student logs in, I need to be able to retrieve the modules they haven't completed yet, in the context of the courses they're in.
There are a plethora of similar queries I've got to make that are more or less of this nature. As it stands, I can achieve all this (and since this is on a deadline, have done so) through various uses of loadModel(), executing a simpler $this->Model->find(), sorting the result through some foreach logic, rinse repeat. Aside from being irritating, I'm also worried it's not scalable because of undue processing on my part, and finally... I hate doing things wrong, haha. I know that CakePHP can handle the questions I want to ask of my data, I just don't know how to ask them (and/or set up the data so such questions can be asked).
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `modules` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`domain_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`subject_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`description` text NOT NULL,
`passing_score` int(11) NOT NULL,
`max_attempts` int(11) NOT NULL,
`allow_retry` int(11) NOT NULL,
`running_score` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`score_privacy` int(11) NOT NULL,
`created` datetime NOT NULL,
`modified` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `domain_id` (`domain_id`),
KEY `subject_id` (`subject_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`group_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`institution_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`firstname` varchar(63) NOT NULL,
`lastname` varchar(63) NOT NULL,
`email` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`studentno` varchar(31) NOT NULL,
`claimed` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`verified` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`created` datetime NOT NULL,
`modified` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `group_id` (`group_id`),
KEY `institution_id` (`institution_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `courses` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`institution_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`coursecode` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`semester` varchar(7) NOT NULL,
`educator_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`year` year(4) NOT NULL,
`description` text NOT NULL,
`created` datetime NOT NULL,
`modified` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `user_id` (`educator_id`), /* educator is an alias of user in some cases */
KEY `institution_id` (`institution_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users_courses` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`user_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`course_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `user_id` (`user_id`,`course_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users_modules` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`user_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`module_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `user_id` (`user_id`,`module_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `courses_modules` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`course_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`module_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `course_id` (`course_id`,`module_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Model Associations
Note: this is not comprehensive—hasOne,hasMany,belongsTo,etc. have been omitted so as to save on space; if need be I can post the entire model.
// from User Model
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Course' => array(
'className' => 'Course',
'joinTable' => 'users_courses',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'course_id',
'unique' => 'keepExisting',
),
'Module' => array(
'className' => 'Module',
'joinTable' => 'users_modules',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'module_id',
'unique' => 'keepExisting',
)
);
// from Course Model
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Module' => array(
'className' => 'Module',
'joinTable' => 'courses_modules',
'foreignKey' => 'course_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'module_id',
'unique' => 'keepExisting',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
),
'User' => array(
'className' => 'User',
'joinTable' => 'users_courses',
'foreignKey' => 'course_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'user_id',
'unique' => 'keepExisting',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
)
);
// from Module Model
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Excerpt' => array(
'className' => 'Excerpt',
'joinTable' => 'excerpts_modules',
'foreignKey' => 'module_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'excerpt_id',
'unique' => 'keepExisting',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
),
'Course' => array(
'className' => 'Course',
'joinTable' => 'courses_modules',
'foreignKey' => 'module_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'course_id',
'unique' => 'keepExisting',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
)
);
As I understand it, this is the problem; A user has a list of available modules through their courses. We want to find available modules that the user has not completed. In other words, we have to find a user's course's modules which are not in that user's modules.
Here's the best way I can think of doing that:
$modules = $this->User->Module->find('all', array(
'joins' => array(
array(
'table' => 'courses_modules',
'alias' => 'CoursesModule',
'type' => 'LEFT',
'conditions' => array('CoursesModule.module_id = Module.id'),
),
array(
'table' => 'courses_users',
'alias' => 'CoursesUser',
'type' => 'LEFT',
'conditions' => array('CoursesUser.course_id = CoursesModule.course_id'),
),
array(
'table' => 'modules_users',
'alias' => 'ModulesUser',
'type' => 'LEFT',
'conditions' => array(
'ModulesUser.module_id = Module.id',
'ModulesUser.user_id' => $userId,
),
),
),
'conditions' => array(
'CoursesUser.user_id' => $userId,
'ModulesUser.id' => null,
),
'recursive' => -1,
));
Which should build a query like this:
SELECT Module.* FROM modules AS Module
LEFT JOIN courses_modules AS CoursesModule
ON (CoursesModule.module_id = Module.id)
LEFT JOIN courses_users AS CoursesUser
ON (CoursesUser.course_id = CoursesModule.course_id)
LEFT JOIN modules_users AS ModulesUser
ON (ModulesUser.module_id = Module.id
AND ModulesUser.user_id = $userId)
WHERE CoursesUser.user_id = $userId
AND ModulesUser.id IS NULL
The first two joins along with the user_id condition will get all the available modules. Rather than getting the user, their courses and then that course's modules we work backwards (kind of); we get the modules and join the courses to which we join the users. Once we add the user_id condition the association will be filtered and only modules that can be joined to the user will be found. Since we are starting with the modules there won't be any duplicates, we don't know (or care) which course was used to make the link.
With those available modules we then join the modules a user has completed and limit the records to those that couldn't be joined.
The CakePHP documentation has more info on joining tables.
Edit :
If you want to set the course IDs manually, you can do this:
$modules = $this->User->Module->find('all', array(
'joins' => array(
array(
'table' => 'courses_modules',
'alias' => 'CoursesModule',
'type' => 'LEFT',
'conditions' => array('CoursesModule.module_id = Module.id'),
),
array(
'table' => 'modules_users',
'alias' => 'ModulesUser',
'type' => 'LEFT',
'conditions' => array(
'ModulesUser.module_id = Module.id',
'ModulesUser.user_id' => $userId,
),
),
),
'conditions' => array(
'CoursesModule.course_id' => $courseIds,
'ModulesUser.id' => null,
),
'recursive' => -1,
));
There's something wrong with the way you set up your relationships. Could you post to show what you've done to set up the relationships, plus what the SQL query is that's giving the error? I'm also confused about what exactly your query is supposed to do.
I can make a few observations already though:
Course does not seem to be defined in your query, which is why you're getting a sql error. Probably there is something wrong with your relationships regarding Course.
If you're trying to do a HABTM relationship between Users and Modules and Courses and Modules, why are you doing creating a hasOne relationship between Module and CoursesModules and Module and UsersModules?
The short version of what I'm wondering is, shouldn't that be a hasMany instead of a hasOne?
The long version is, occasionally, when you have a join table like that, you'll need to for some reason create a relationship with the join table itself rather than just using HABTM (where when you get the data, the data in the join table is not included). Generally this is because there is data besides the two foreign keys that must also be stored in the join table. But in that case, you should be using what is known as a has many through relationship. If it's not necessary to use a has many through, you should just be using HABTM with users and courses, and not be creating relationships with directly with the join tables at all. http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#hasmany-through-the-join-model
Conditions for related models need to be in the contain options. Keep in mind that the normal behavior of Cake is to get related model data in additional queries, rather than doing a join and getting it all in one query. http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/behaviors/containable.html

MySQL Decimal empty string / null (Meekrodb)

I have the following table:
CREATE TABLE `Plot` (
`idPlot` int(11) NOT NULL,
`ListPrice` decimal(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,
`WebPrice` decimal(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,
`BottomPrice` decimal(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`idPlot`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
I want to have values stored an NULL in the decimal fields if an empty string is passed. I can only seem to store 0.00 however.
I'm using Meekrodb to do the update:
$db->update('Plot', array(
'ListPrice' => $one['ListPrice'],
'BottomPrice' => $one['BottomPrice'],
'WebPrice' => $one['WebPrice']
), "idPlot=%s", $one['idPlot']);
My input array looks like this:
Array
(
[idPlot] => 6
[ListPrice] => 99,999.00
[BottomPrice] =>
[WebPrice] =>
)
Meekro runs:
UPDATE `Plot` SET `ListPrice`='99999.00', `BottomPrice`='', `WebPrice`='' WHERE idPlot='6'
And I get:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[idPlot] => 6
[ListPrice] => 99999.00
[WebPrice] => 0.00
[BottomPrice] => 0.00
)
)
stored in the database.
Is there any way of making it populate the fields with NULL rather than 0.00???
Thanks
Please note the difference between an empty string:
$foo = '';
... and a NULL value:
$foo = NULL;
The print_r() function does not display the difference; you need to use var_dump() to accurately dump your variables:
$data = array('', NULL);
print_r($data);
var_dump($data);
Array
(
[0] =>
[1] =>
)
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(0) ""
[1]=>
NULL
}
I believe you have to insert the value as NULL without quotations

ajaxplorer:login from mysql table

Hi i am using ajaxplorer, here i want to use mysql database table to login to ajaxplorer..
here is the table structure
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `user` (
`Guid` char(38) COLLATE latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
`UserName` varchar(250) COLLATE latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
`Organization` char(38) COLLATE latin1_general_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`rsguid` char(38) COLLATE latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
`temppassword` varchar(50) COLLATE latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
`SessionExpires` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`IsAdmin` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`Guid`)
)
here user name is "admin" and temppassword is "ajaxplorer" using these credentials from user table i want to login in ajaxplorer..
please help me out
1: Replace the auth driver and conf driver in bootstrap_plugins.php with the following:
"CONF_DRIVER" => array(
"NAME" => "sql",
"OPTIONS" => array(
"SQL_DRIVER" => array(
"driver" => "mysql",
"host" => "db_server",
"database" => "db_name",
"user" => "db_username",
"password" => "db_password",
),
)
),
"AUTH_DRIVER" => array(
"NAME" => "sql",
"OPTIONS" => array(
"SLAVE_MODE" => true,
"SQL_DRIVER" => array(
"driver" => "mysql",
"host" => "db_server",
"database" => "db_name",
"user" => "db_username",
"password" => "db_password"
),
"TRANSMIT_CLEAR_PASS" => false // Don't touch this. It's unsafe (and useless here) to transmit clear password.
)
),
2: You can find all the queries regarding user table and column names in pligins/auth.sql/class.sqlAuthDriver.php where you can customize them according to your requirement like renaming "ajaxp_user" to "user" etc.