I need to create a custom exception. But I don't know where to store the file and how I call the Custom Exception reference?
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My current folder structure:
Note: CakePHP 3.0.11
If you read the accepted answer on the question you reference you will see it doesn't matter where you place the exception as there is no Cake convention for where to put these. Using namespacing correctly the autoloader will find them.
Personally would put it somewhere like src/Error/CustomException.php (you can create the folder structure for yourself even if it doesn't exist), but at the end of the day it is up to you.
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I need to create a custom function in request_handler.
Which file should I edit:
core\cake\libs\controller\components\request_handler.php
or
app\controllers\components\request_handler.php
I believe that core should be mantained has origin and all the changes should be made on app folder, is this right? Assuming it's correct, I should duplicate the file (from core to app) and add the functions I need or just create a new file with the new functions?
Thanks!
Which versuion of Cake is this? Seems like 1.3?
You should NOT edit the core under any circumstances. It is also not good to add a function to request_handler.
If you need this logic all over the application just implement it in the AppController's callback functions.
I'm creating a CakePHP 2.3 advanced installation (several apps -websites- that share one same lib folder where all of cake's core files are located). This works without any problems, I just edit the core.php file in the Config folder for each app so it knows where to find cake's files. The file system looks something like:
[root]
[cake-core-files]
[websites]
[website-1]
[app]
[plugins]
[vendors]
[website-2]
...
[website-N]
These different apps are in fact different in some things (they are different websites) but at the same time there's many things that are common to all of them (for example some models, controllers, functions...). What I would like to do, if possible, is to have those apps also share a bunch of controllers, models, etc so I can put them in one place, instead of replicating them now for each app.
I've seen the concept of vendors and plugins in CakePHP (I actually use plugins in those websites, but from the /app/plugins folder), but I'm not sure if that would work in my case, or how I would set that up. I guess the idea would be to have another folder (for example [shared_objects]) at the same level of [cake-core-files] and [websites], but I don't know how I would have to configure cake to do that or how to call those objects from each app.
Any ideas?
EDIT
Based on the comments/responses below I'm trying to do this using the App:build() function in the bootstrap.php, but I can't get it to work. This is what I've done:
Added a new folder where I want to put the stuff to share between all apps:
[root]
[cake-core-files]
[shared-stuff] --> NEW FOLDER
[Model]
[Config]
[websites]
[website-1]
etc...
Placed the model User.php inside the new folder [shared-stuff/Model]
Added this line in the bootstrap:
App::build(array('Model' => array('/path/to/shared-stuff/Model')));
Deleted the model User.php from its original location [website-1/app/Model]
After this steps, it seems to work, the model User.php is loaded correctly from the [shared-stuff] folder (I've tested that printing App::objects('Model');, the User model is listed). However, it actually doesn't work, when I call that model from the UsersController in the login() function, the login doesn't work (although I don't receive any kind of error, even with debug set to 2).
This model uses a database configuration different from the default one (the users table is located in a different database than the default one). I don't know if this matters.
One thing is for sure, if I leave the same exact User.php model in its original location ( [website-1/app/Model]) it all works fine, including the login, so it's a problem with how I try to configure all this sharing stuff, not the model itself.
Any ideas what am I doing wrong?
I think it could be useful to share some controller/model between multiple websites, and do it without a plugin: Using shared controller/model lets you to overwrite it if needed. It should happen simply copying the controller/model in the website's correct folder and the system should use it instead of the shared one!
EDIT: Wonderful, it works, but i think there is a little error in cake's official documentation: All paths should be terminated with a Directory separator! In the cakephp book there aren't trailing slash. Add it to your App::build path and everything will work perfectly!
You can have plugins in the core Plugins/ dir
[root]
[lib]
[Cake]
[Plugins]
[Available]
[To]
[All]
[website-1] // the 'app' dir -> https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tree/master/app
[plugins]
[vendors]
[website-2] // you can have many of them named anything, 'app' is just one.
...
[website-N]
This folder specifically will make the plugins available to any app using the cake lib
EG:
Look at this. Copy app to website-1, repeat till website-n.
I have a Silverlight solution that has multiple silverlight projects (Views) that all compile to their own .Xap file.
There is one "master" project that handles the dynamic downloading of the Xap files, which works pretty well.
But now I need to make sure that all the references are set to CopyLocal=false in all the View Projects. Only the "master" project can have CopyLocal=true.
This means that the Xap files generated by the Views stay rather small.
What I would like to do is check post or during the build process to see if any of the View projects have a reference with CopyLocal=true.
What would be a smart way of doing this? Using an external tool in the Post Build event? Or perhaps an addin for Visual Studio ? Or creating a macro in Visual Studio for this?
I have looked at using .extmap with assembly caching, but since you have to specify the assemblies in that, this does not solve my problem. I just need to know if there is a reference with the wrong setting and report that. Fixing it is not the question, that will still be done manually. It's just the notification I need.
Solution has 35 projects now, so dont want to check them all by hand every time.
I found a question similar to this one, but it lists msbuild as a possible solution. I would like to know if there is a way to do this using "code" (be it prebuilt in a tool/addin or otherwise)
I have chosen to go the Addin path. I created an addin that listens to : BuildEvents.OnBuildBegin
Whenever that event fires I create a list of all projects in the current solution. Doing a bit of recursive searching since there are also Solution folders that make life in DTE world a bit harder.
Then I loop through all the projects and cast them to a VSProject so I can loop through all the references.
Anytime I come accross a reference that is wrong, I create an ErrorTask where I set the Document property to the full solution path of the reference. To do this I Build the path for the project this reference is in, all the way up to the root of the solution.
The ErrorTask is then sent to an ErrorListHelper class I created, that handles the ErrorTasks and also performs navigation.
If I'm done with all the projects and I found any errors, I cancel the current build and show the Error List window, where my ErrorListHelper holds all the Reference Errors I created.
Whenever I want to navigate to the Reference in question, I activate the Solution Explorer window and get the root of it using an UIHierarchy.
Then I walk the path from the root on down, step by step, using the UIHierarchy to get to the UIHierarchyItems and expand them. Until I get to the deepest level (the reference) and I Select that.
Since I only need it for a certain solution and within that solution for certain projects (.Views.* and .ViewModels.*) I also have some checking for those in place during buildup of the Error List.
It works like a charm, already found 12 "wrong" References in 35 projects where I tought all were well.
I am using a different path now to do this. I have a base class that I can use to write unit tests that have access to the DTE2 object. This way I dont need an addin. This also works for Silverlight projects since the test class does not actually need access to the Silverlight projects, just being in the solution is enough to be able to iterate through the projects and check the references.
I'm making a main app in CakePHP 1.3.10 that has a couple of plugins. In one of them, I need to use a very big array ($array_test) populated "manually".
The way I have it now (which works perfectly) is that I declare the array in the controller of the plugin that I want to use it in (plugin1_home_controller.php for example), doing something like var $array_test = array(1,2,3,4,5...), and I can access it perfectly from the views in that controller.
The thing is that I would prefer having the array declared somewhere else in the plugin, since it's too big, and then load it when I need it.
So I'm trying to create a array_test.php file with the array declared in it, put in /app/plugins/plugin1/webroot/php/array_test.php, and then load it from the view using include "/php/array_test.php" (I also tried include "/plugin1/php/array_test.php" as the CakeBook says in the plugins assets section), but none of them work.
How can I get the right path? Or is there any good alternative to what I want to do? Thank you so much in advance!
If your plugin is in the app's directory use:
APP_PATH.'plugins'.DS.'plugin1'.DS.'webroot'.DS.'php'.DS.'array_test.php'
If your plugin is installed in the common cake directory:
CORE_PATH.'plugins'.DS.'plugin1'.DS.'webroot'.DS.'php'.DS.'array_test.php'
I'm running into a problem with GroupsController::build_acl()- http://book.cakephp.org/view/647/An-Automated-tool-for-creating-ACOs
It's taken me a while to track down the bug and now I've found it I'm not sure how to work around it.
Symptoms:
Not all methods for NodesController (defined by me) are returned.
Probable reason:
build_acl() imports a 3rd party plugin that also has a NodesController and a subsequent App::import() doesn't overwrite it.
I'm about to try two runs of the build, one with the plugin code commented out, but a more durable solution would be preferred!
I need a way to either drop an imported controller or force a re-import while remaining in scope.
you can not do what you want to do, think about straight php for a while. once you have used include('some/file.php'); how do you un-import it? you cant.
now the reason why you cant overwrite it is once again down to php. what happens if you run
<?php
include('some/file.php');
include('some/file.php');
?>
you will get errors about the class being defined already.
Cake is stopping this from happening, so the only (and correct way) is to not have 2 controllers with the same name. you can name them what ever you like and use the router to map to nice urls.
Turns out the plugin was redundant and not called anywhere in the application and would have broken it if it was as a class redefinition error would have ensued. After removal of the files everything worked okay.