Question

I have a CakePHP application that allows a user to register and post projects. At some point whilst I have been tinkering with it I have managed to change the way the current date is captured when the user record is created 🙁 when a new user account is created the date is defaulted to

Jan 19th 1970, 01:00

Here is my register action in the users controller:

 function register()
{
    if ( !empty( $this->data ) ){
       if ( $this->data['User']['password'] 
                == $this->Auth->password( $this->data['User']['password_confirm'])) {

                    $this->User->create();
                    if ( $this->User->save($this->data) ){
                        $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index')); 
                    }

        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash('password mismatch');
  }
 }
}

Register view:

<?php
$currentdatetime = time();
echo $form->create( 'User', array('action' => 'register' ) );
echo $form->input('username', array( 'label' => 'Username' ) );
echo $form->input('fname', array( 'label' => 'First name' ) );
echo $form->input('lname', array( 'label' => 'Last name' ) );
echo $form->input('emailaddress', array( 'label' => 'Email Address') );
echo $form->input('website', array( 'label' => 'Website') );
echo $form->hidden( 'created', array( 'value' => $currentdatetime ) );
echo $form->input('password', array( 'label' => 'Password', 'type' => 'password') );
echo $form->input('password_confirm', array( 'label' => 'Retype Password', 'type' => 'password' ) );
 echo $form->submit();
echo $form->end();
?>

I have a users table with a created DATETIME column. Not NULL, default ‘0000-00-00’

Can someone help me out here? I’m thinking I’ve maybe just deleted a line of cod or something

Thanks,

Jonesy

Answer 1

The default value for the created column has to be NULL according to the cookbook:

These fields need to be datetime fields with the default value set to NULL to be recognized by CakePHP.