Question

In my cakephp i need to retrieve datas from database.

how can i display the table result in neat format.

Controller:

  function MarketingTaskmanagement(){
    $data['list'] = $this->TravancoAdmin->get_task_all();
    $this->set($data); 
    $this->render('Marketing/taskmanagement');
  }

Model:

function get_task_all(){

               $users = $this->query('select * from tbl_tasks');

        if($users){
            return $users;
        }else{
            return 1;
        }
    }

View:

But it displays values as so many arrays:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 1 [task_title_mm] => ghjg [task_description_mm] => gjg [task_from_mm] => 09/04/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/27/2012 ) ) [1] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 2 [task_title_mm] => hf [task_description_mm] => hfgh [task_from_mm] => 09/03/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/27/2012 ) ) [2] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 3 [task_title_mm] => hf [task_description_mm] => hfgh [task_from_mm] => 09/03/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/27/2012 ) ) [3] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 4 [task_title_mm] => hfh [task_description_mm] => fgh [task_from_mm] => 09/03/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/20/2012 ) ) [4] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 5 [task_title_mm] => h [task_description_mm] => h [task_from_mm] => 09/04/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/28/2012 ) ) [5] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 6 [task_title_mm] => hjk [task_description_mm] => hk [task_from_mm] => 09/05/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/22/2012 ) ) [6] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 7 [task_title_mm] => v [task_description_mm] => v [task_from_mm] => 09/03/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/28/2012 ) ) [7] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 8 [task_title_mm] => d [task_description_mm] => d [task_from_mm] => 09/03/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/28/2012 ) ) [8] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 9 [task_title_mm] => f [task_description_mm] => d [task_from_mm] => 09/04/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/27/2012 ) ) [9] => Array ( [tbl_tasks] => Array ( [task_ids_mm] => 10 [task_title_mm] => b [task_description_mm] => b [task_from_mm] => 09/05/2012 [task_to_mm] => 09/27/2012 ) ) ) 

In codeigniter there have something like this:

$users = $this->query('select * from tbl_tasks')->result();

Then it displays the correct array without any complication .

So how can i do this in cakephp?

And i need to display the all task_title_mm values from the table result in view page.

How can i do this?

Answer 1

Since you expanded your question I’ll elaborate a bit on the anwser.

It is a good practice to not use $this->query() where a native cake search would work.

if you don’t have a model file for your tbl_tasks create one:

<?php
class Task extends AppModel {
    var $name = 'Task';
    var $displayField = 'task_title_mm';
    var $useTable = 'tbl_tasks';
}

Load it inside your get_task_all() function. You can load a model dinamically inside another.

function get_task_all(){
    //load the Task model on the fly if it isnt associated with this one
    //loadModel won't work because we're inside a model. 
    //App:import might work, dunno.
    $this->Task = ClassRegistry::init('Task');

    $users = $this->Task->find('list');

    return $users ? $users : 1;
}

find('list') works if you declare 'task_title_mm' as displayField otherwise you can use $this->Task->find('all', array('fields' => array('task_title_mm')));, but the result will be prefixed with ['Task'];