“aka: How to add advanced search functionality to your CakePHP Application”
Advanced search functionality is something that I’ve always built into my applications. Even back in the days of writing CGI/PERL applications, I’ve always had some class or set of functions to help build SQL conditions (aka WHERE expressions) based on user input (GET/POST). When I started to work with CakePHP, I noticed that it lacked this functionality. There was no “cake way” of defining advanced search parameters. Luckily CakePHP makes up for it by being a great MVC! There is a way to input conditions into the paginate/find methods, but you … Continue reading SQL Conditions – A CakePHP Component Class