Re: CakePHP 2.0 features

On Oct 18, 2:48 pm, Glauco Custódio <glauco.custo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there, I was reading CakePHP 2.0 docs and I would like to solve some
> doubts.
>
>  - DboMysqli was removed, we will support DboMysql only. Why? Mysqli is not
> better than Mysql??

pdo automatically uses mysqli if it's available.

>
>  - $this->Form->input() instead $form->input(). The second way is not faster
> and shorter to type?

You can't lazy load $randomname; you can lazyload $this->randomname.
It is faster to execute, and prevents variable name conflicts.

>
>  - isAjax() was deprecated?

replaced with is('ajax')

>
> Suggestions
>
> I think that it would be good whether Cake had a method to create images
> inside links easier than to use $this->Html->link($this->Html->image(), '#',
> array('escape' => false));

Use the docs Glauco
http://api.cakephp.org/class/html-helper#method-HtmlHelperimage

> I worked with a php framework called SpaghettiPHP (very similar with CakePHP
> 1.x)

It's similar because it copied CakePHP as a start point.

> that implemented a method called imagelink, where we just needed to
> pass the image path as first arg and the link as second arg, besides came 2
> arrays of options to both tags.

It was removed from cake because it wasn't simpler than using ->image
or ->link(->image)

>
> Thank you and congratulations for CakePHP project, it's really a good work.

Enjoy :)

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