Question

Can any one guide me for how can i copy one mysql table to another table in same database using cakephp please give me example query if possible.

Answer 1

If it’s a quick and dirty one time copy, I’d just loop over the source table records and create new target records:

$source = $this->Source->find('all');
foreach($source as $sRec)
{
    $this->Target->create();
    $targetData = array();
    $target['Target']['field1'] = $sRec['Source']['field1'];
    $target['Target']['field2'] = $sRec['Source']['field2'];
    //etc
    $this->Target->save($targetData);
}

Apologies if it’s buggy, I’ve just splurged it.

Edited to show row selection conditional. Something along the lines of:

$toCopy = array(1,32,71,72,73);
foreach($toCopy as $anId)
{
    $sRec = $this->Source->read(null,$anId);
    $this->Target->create();
    $targetData = array();
    $target['Target']['field1'] = $sRec['Source']['field1'];
    $target['Target']['field2'] = $sRec['Source']['field2'];
    //etc
    $this->Target->save($targetData);
}