Try this. Lots less typing. In your controller, saving data to your database is as simple as:
public function add() {
$data = "test";
$this->Myaccount->save($data);
// $this->set sends controller variables to the view
$this->set("last", $this->Myaccount->getLastInsertId());
}
You could loop through an array of data to save with foreach
, returning the insertId
after each, or you could use Cake's saveAll()
method.
Myaccount is the Model object associated with your controller. Cake's naming convention requires a table called "myaccounts" to have a model class called "Myaccount" and a controller called "Myaccounts_Controller". The view files will live in /app/views/myaccounts/... and will be named after your controller methods. So, if you have a function add()... method in your controller, your view would be /app/Views/Myaccounts/add.ctp.
The save() method generates the INSERT
statement. If the data you want to save is located in $this->data
, you can skip passing an argument in; it will save $this->data by default. save()
even automagically detects whether to generate an UPDATE
or an INSERT
statement based on the presence of an id
in your data.
As a rule of thumb, if you're using raw sql queries at any point in Cake, you're probably doing it wrong. I've yet to run into a query so monstrously complex that Cake's ORM couldn't model it.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/saving-your-data.html
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/additional-methods-and-properties.html?highlight=getlastinsertid
HTH :)