thanks for the insight. I think I'm just having a bad day. I realize with everything there is a learning curve. I guess I just thought it would be next to nothing for cake. :-)
Actually, my project has 1 database with 4 tables, so it's a good little task to try cake out on, I think. My perseverance machine just needs another cup of coffee. :-) On Apr 29, 8:36 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HAH! Yeah, I probably wouldn't have used Cake for just a simple form > to gather user info. Truely though, I feel your pain, I've used cake > for 3 projects and there are quite a few bugs that I've ran into and > quite a few changes I've had to make to the Cake libraries to get it > to work with non standard databases. It really helps to be able to > understand Object Oriented Programming and PHP and not be afraid to > jump into the library code. I would say that there is not much rapid > in the first project, especially if the scope of the project is small > like yours seems. But, once you understand how the framework works and > know more about how to use it, it gets much quicker. Cake really > becomes more useful when you use it for larger projects with more > complex table relationships and when you use a lot of it's built in > functions, like it's ajax helper, user authentication and data > sanitation functions. When you don't have to write that sort of > functionality yourself, you really start to appreciate it more. > > Dave > > On Apr 29, 9:26 am, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, gstrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have another form that by the default 'bake' > > > appears as "text input" but I want it to be a > > > drop down menu. I have to wade through the > > > api to figure this one out. I'm just wondering > > > if it's worth it, or should I just go back to > > > plain old php? > > > Why do you think you have to use the API to figure it out? > > >http://book.cakephp.org > > > -- > > Chris Hartjes > > Internet Loudmouth > > Motto for 2008: "Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes..." > > @TheKeyBoard:http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
