Comments on: Using CakePHP without a database

By: Duff [for you Duff for me :]

Duff [for you Duff for me :] — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:41:02 +0000

Just wanted to say quick ‘Thanks’ Im setting up quick ’site under construction’ with contact form and your no-db solution was just what i was looking for !

By: Maddin

Maddin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:50:31 +0000

Hi,

I´m quite new to CakePHP. I got this tutorial running, but how can I set and get data to the DboFile? There are no functions for doing that, am I right?
When I try the Alternative, like Daniel mentioned, then Data gets lost. Maybe the object gets reinitialised …
Maybe somebody has a hint, or something , thanks

By: Tarique Sani

Tarique Sani — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:01:22 +0000

Caching just for the times when API is unavailable is tricky – we have a DB based caching for the complete app…. depends on your requirement.

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:05:11 +0000

I’ve recently built a salesforce integration as well, and what i’ve run into is the API call limit – something like 1000 calls per license.
Have you run into this issue? How have you solved it?
I’m thinking of building a caching layer into the app to avoid any downtime due to API unavailability….

By: Daniel Farrell

Daniel Farrell — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:58:19 +0000

While reading this discussion I had the following idea. What if we make a WebSource(or RestSource or whatever) that extends DataSource and provides the parts of DboSource that would be useful? Then we could have a web/ directory next to dbo/ that holds the datasources for each api that extend WebSource. Does that interest anyone?

By: Amit Badkas

Amit Badkas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:21:43 +0000

@Dardo Sordi: as per MVC and cake conventions, data resources should be wrapped in models – I particularly disapprove of creating a datasource object directly in controller and using it – so $amazon->find() IMHO should ideally be $this->Amazon->find() and also this will be more flexible and extensible

By: Dardo Sordi

Dardo Sordi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:40 +0000

@Amit Badkas: well probably in your case it was the right choice, what I said was based in the examples I saw in the comunity: bakery’s LDAP DataSource, Felix’s Google Analitycs and Amazon datasources, and Youtube datasource (in GitHUB)… but we all know YMMV

By: Tarique Sani

Tarique Sani — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:01:48 +0000

Well if Amit stands by what he has written – I will agree with him – he knows more CakePHP internals than me

By: Amit Badkas

Amit Badkas — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:27:04 +0000

@Dardo Sordi – a lot of functionality which is in DboSource is needed by any API based data source as well like connecting to begin with – so it makes more sense to extend DboSource even though semantically DboSource is coded more towards SQL databases – hence it was my conscious decision to use DboSource as the base class and not the more abstract DataSource

By: Tarique Sani

Tarique Sani — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:18:11 +0000

@Dardo Sordi – now that you mention it again, yes Daniel was write if he meant DataSource should be extended and not DboSource