Question

I learned ruby on rails before php and need a quick answer.

I’m trying to do something like this in CakePHP.

@foo = Foo.find(:all)
@some_foos = @foo.select { |i| i.status == 4 }

Thanks!

Answer 1

Roughly translates to:

$foo = Foo::find($all);
$some_foos = $foo->select(function($i) {
    return $i->status == 4;
});

In other words, it’s calling the static find method on the Foo ActiveRecord and assigns the result. Then it selects from those results those records which satisfy the anonymous function and assigns those as well.

Try this for CakePHP (untested):

$foo = $this->Foo->find('all');
$some_foos = array_filter($foo, function($i) {
    return $i['Foo']['status'] != 4;
});

If you dont need all the Foos, you want to fetch the relevant records instead:

$some_foos = $this->Product->findAllByStatus('4');

or via raw SQL

$some_foos = $this->Foo->query("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE status = 4;");