Question

I have these two file in my project that I am migrating from php. I have developed most of it by seeing the functionality but there are these two files which I don’t know about. If somebody could have a look and help me converting these, I would really be thankful.

Menu.ctp

<?php  
Configure::write('debug', 0);  
echo($_GET['callback'].'(');  
echo ($javascript->object($profiles));  
echo(');');  
?> 

Retrieve.ctp

<?php
Configure::write('debug', 0);
echo($_GET['callback'].'(');
echo ($javascript->object($profile));
echo(');');
?>

Answer 1

Configure::write('debug', 0);  

This tell application to put debug mode to off. If you in debug mode, any application error message will be displayed which is not appropiate for production or ajax call.

echo($_GET['callback'].'(');

$_GET is a global variable which hold all GET request parameter. For example, request to index.php?callback=some_callback will set $_GET[‘callback’] to some_callback.

echo ($javascript->object($profiles));

This is javascript helper in CakePHP which turn PHP array($profiles) into JSON.

echo($_GET['callback'].'(');
echo ($javascript->object($profile));
echo(');'); 

This will otuput : callback_parameter(JSON form of profiles);