Re: Preferred way to retrieve data with cake 3.0

2015-05-03 Thread José Lorenzo
The latter is preferred, i.e. the way using the select() and where() methods. The reason is that the is a lot more flexibility in what you can do with the new way. A quick way to check if there if there is data in a query is: if ($query->all()->count() > 0) On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 10:54:43 P

Preferred way to retrieve data with cake 3.0

2015-05-01 Thread Aaron Bird
Hi I am making the move from cake 2.x to 3.x I am starting a new project so figured this a good time. I have been reading the book alot and its starting to make more sense. I have been playing with different ways of retrieving my data and am a little confused as to the best practice method fo