Thanks for the idea, I looked into it a little, but I don't want to
mess too much with the innards of my app as someone else will be
taking it over soon.
What I ended up doing was placing a link next to the empty job number
textbox that opens a new browser tab/window with the job number list
in it
Just an idea...
Extend Mysql datasource:
- override connect():
try {
parent::connect();
} catch (Exception $e) {
return false;
}
- override constructor - set 'autoConnect' flag to false
Model::beforeFind():
$db = ConnectionManager::getDataSource('another')
I am reading a list of job numbers from a mysql database on an old
server on my intranet. This server is completely independent from the
server for my cakephp app and database. If the server is there, I
populate a combobox with the list of job numbers, however, if it is
down, I would like to handle
