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Comment on Populating a SELECT box with distinct values by Petr 'PePa' Pavel

Petr 'PePa' Pavel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:07:56 +0000

Ming, your code wouldn’t work for several reasons:

If you just return something then you can’t use it in your view to populate SELECT box. Maybe you omitted $this->set() just to keep your code simple though.
With $this->set() your solution would pass through
array(0 => value1, 1 => value2 …)
and thus if I choose value1 in the SELECT box it’s in fact “0″ that gets submitted.
We need
array(value1 => value1, value2 => value2 …)
because we want value1 submitted.
I also considered that you were in fact, just suggesting to use find(’list). But then again you get
array(0 => value1, 1 => value2 …)

But thanks for commenting. Expressing opinions, making suggestions. That’s what these comments are for.

Comment on Populating a SELECT box with distinct values by Ming

Ming — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:34:48 +0000

How about this…

$list = $this->find(’list’, array(’fields’ => array(’Model.field’)));
return array_unique($list);

Comment on SQL functions or keywords in CakePHP conditions by Rubens Mariuzzo

Rubens Mariuzzo — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:25:49 +0000

Thanks a lot it save me some extra hours. Thanks.

Comment on Absolute positioning in HTML e-mails for Outlook 2007 by ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:23:54 +0000

Sorry for being unpolite.
And I had really appreciated the way you answered to my comment.
But I arrived here searching for “

The docs are contained in a database of a product that has to be migrated.
I wrote a software that, among the others, extract the xml from the db blobs, transform some xml nodes and extract some html parts to build a html document, as a part of the migration project.
While I’m writing it, I was doing some tests against a number of documents as xml parsing and transformation is time and resource consuming, and all went ok.
Now that the sw is 99.9% done, I’ve tested it against a broader set of documents and it’s failing because of that v:shape attribute.
Now I have to choose among:
- add the xmlns to all the documents, whether they have the attr or not (little effort, not elegant)
- navigate all the nodes and check all the attributes, sanitizing them or adding the xmlns if necessary (middle effort, time and resource consuming)
- implement my own transformer (high effort)
- ?
AFAIK, all the solutions require time and you know time==money/life.
That’s way I’m unhappy.

Comment on Absolute positioning in HTML e-mails for Outlook 2007 by Petr 'PePa' Pavel

Petr 'PePa' Pavel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:02:04 +0000

I despise this MS-only stuff as much as you do but by closing my eyes I won’t make it go away. So if a client specifically requests he wants his e-mail thing to show well in Outlook 2007 I just take a deep breath and do it. That’s just life I guess.

Comment on Absolute positioning in HTML e-mails for Outlook 2007 by ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:14:07 +0000

Interesting…
“

Please, stop publishing that crap on the web.

Comment on Populating a SELECT box with distinct values by Petr 'PePa' Pavel

Petr 'PePa' Pavel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:03:55 +0000

Hi Steve, that’s weird that you’re getting an error.
I’m using CakePHP 1.2.0.7692 RC3 and my real code differs from the example I have given in my post only in that I specify additional options like “order” and “recursive” for the find() call.

My best guess is that your find call doesn’t return a valid search result array (e.g. because of a typo in a field name), or you changed the variable name that holds it but forgot to change it later in the combine call as well. I create this kind of errors all the time.

Petr

Comment on Populating a SELECT box with distinct values by SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:54:36 +0000

Ok,

I’m still perplexed with simply populating a SELECT box with distinct values from a table column.

Something like:

$this->set(’citylist’, $this->Zldinput->find(’list’, array(’fields’=>’Zldinput.City’, ‘group’=>’Zldinput.City’)));

gets me close, but as you mention my array has elements of the id and City thus my SELECT gets

BOSTON

where I want the ……value=”BOSTON”>BOSTON.

your solution is close but combine throws an error on $events

Cheers, Steve

Comment on Absolute positioning in HTML e-mails for Outlook 2007 by Adrenalin

Adrenalin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:19:53 +0000

Oh my inexistant God! You really saved my day.

You know, after banging your head against Outlook 2007 for several hours, trying to Google my way to find out about the lack of backgrounds and then finally ending up in here, tired and frustrated, ready to resign… ;)

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for these advices.

Comment on processing IMAP folder on a regular basis by T.J. Crowder

T.J. Crowder — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:29:24 +0000

Very good point about the sent date vs. the delivered date!

Regarding date formats, I wonder if many/most IMAP servers support the unambiguous ISO 8601 date format? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) To my mind, anyone creating software that has even a remote possibility of having to deal with multiple formats (and I’d say IMAP server software qualifies!) should always support ISO 8601 and use it internally… Sadly, though, to the extent it’s even covered by the RFC (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html) — and why do we keep making the mistake of not defining these things?! — it looks like they’ve done exactly the wrong thing and require DD-MM-YYYY (at least, that’s how it looks to me in the Formal Syntax section, but I’m not an expert at ABNF)…

– T.J. :-)