Question

I have a model ‘listing’ with a field ‘created’ which is in a datetime format.
I need to list in a view all listings that were created over 2 weeks ago.
An extra thing if possible is to somehow mark them as expired.

This is in cakePhp 1.27

Answer 1

Hi I think you can use a simple script to do that in cake.

      function meScript(){
            // first load your model if necessary
            $listingModel = ClassRegistry::init('Listing');

            // Then set your date margin to , two weeks back
            $date_margin =  date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('-2 week')) ;

            // now retrieve all records that were created over 2 weeks ago  
            $listings = $listingModel ->find('all', array(
                                                        'conditions' => array('created <' => $date_margin),
                                                        )


                            );

}

That’s pretty much it. Since the margin date is in “Y-m-d H:i:s” format, the ” ‘created <‘ => $date_margin” condition will retrieve all records that were created before that date.

As for the next step of marking them as expired:
Simply loop through the results and use their ids to set your ‘expired’ field (or whatever it is called in your database table) to ‘true’.