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Comment on Paginating search results in CakePHP by Dipesh

Dipesh — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:35:20 +0000

Yes this code work preety fine but what if i want to use LIKE clause on it.?Please help me my work is stucked.

Comment on Hello and welcome! by Flak

Flak — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:38:19 +0000

Try Codeigniter, it’s very powerful, and good documentation.

Cake is very good, but too large.

Comment on Paginating search results in CakePHP by oerd

oerd — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:57:18 +0000

It seems to me that managing the search parameters in Cookies is not a good idea. Unless you are using advanced encryption techniques in Cookies (i.e. client side sessions), they are not reliable (they can be modified easily by the client), using them in your search queries might lead to SQL Query Injection.

Sending your search parameter via POST requests is a good idea.

The only other option I see to save your search parameters (but one that I strongly suggest not to use) is to persist them in model in the database. Having said that, I don’t understand why using using Session to manage your keys is such a problem to you?

Comment on Paginating search results in CakePHP by Jitendra Rathod

Jitendra Rathod — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:08:05 +0000

Thanks for posting this post. I am facing same type of problem in my admin side paging with the search parameter. In my case I am searching on the base of Email name and status and I want same search parameter on my subsequent pages in cakephp paging. But I am not able to do that by default cake php pagination. I have managed my search parameter in Cookies rather than in session because of I dont want to load on in the session. Please suggest any one better option for that. Also I want my search parameter to be sent through post method.

Comment on Paginating search results in CakePHP by oerd

oerd — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:08:30 +0000

Mandi, thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I agree with your observation.

In a web application however, like in a an online store, some items disappear and you’d need to have some sort of version info in your DB. Or never delete items but mark them as inactive/unavailable.

In the studied case, if a property is sold, it should not appear in search results, nor in stored search results. Moreover I dislike HTTP GET for submitting a search request.

HTTP POST versus GET is a very long discussion and a lot of man hours have been spent writing on this argument

Comment on Paginating search results in CakePHP by mandi

mandi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:55:37 +0000

I do not agree with the statement that search queries should not be handled via GET method. If you are willing to store a snapshot of the search as seen in that moment, just insert a date argument in the search.
Search Results should be linkable just as any other page article to my opinion.

Comment on Hello and welcome! by admin

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:40:21 +0000

nice one