instead of doing:
$this->setDataSource('whatever');
you can do that:
class MyModel extends AppModel {
$useDbConfig = 'whatever';
//...
}
On 24 mai, 17:37, shmit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because I like to answer my own questions, I found the solution to
> this.
>
> Here's how you set up the map for your new service:
>
> name your file 'app/models/datasources/type_source.php' (e.g.,
> 'web_services_source.php')
> your class name will be the StudlyCaps version of that (e.g.,
> 'WebServicesSource'), defined in the above file.
>
> Set up a map for that datasource to a name in database.php's
> DATABASE_CONFIG class:
>
> var $whatever = array('datasource' => 'type'); (e.g.: var
> $web_services => array('datasource' => 'web_services'))
>
> The datasource value is the name of your datasource file w/o the
> '_source.php' at the end. The name of the variable ($web_services),
> can be whatever you want.
>
> In your model, tell it to use your new data source. I did this in the
> constructor with:
>
> $this->setDataSource('whatever');
>
> Where 'whatever' is the name of your variable in the DATABASE_CONFIG
> class.
>
> I'm probably doing that last part wrong, but it seems to work for me.
>
> On May 24, 11:01 am, shmit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On May 23, 7:44 pm,
> gwoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > then create a connection in database.php that can be used.
> > > you could use the xml class to get the web service.
>
> > This is the part I'm missing. I can't for the life of me figure out
> > how to get the data source loaded. The docs turn up nothing. Google
> > turns up nothing, and I can't pick apart the source enough (yet) to
> > figure out how to load it.
>
> > The only thing I've found was this comment:
>
> > * @param string $name The name of the DataSource, as defined in
> > app/
> > config/connections
>
> > Of course, the file doesn't exist, and I can't even tell if its
> > getting loaded at all, nor what format it's supposed to be in.
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