Bookmarker Tutorial part 1 problems

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I am working through the Bookmarker tutorial and am having some problems. Toward the end we are trying to get bookmarks returned based on a tag supplied in the url. I don’t get bookmarks returned. I actually don’t see how the bookmarks and tags tables are ever associated with each other.

In the tutorial we bake 3 tables, but do not bake the bookmarks_tags table. I do not understand how this can work this way. I never end up with any data in my bookmarks_tags database table. It seems pretty clear that the bookmarks_tags table is the glue between the tags and bookmarks tables.

I can’t find where the function “findTagged(Query $query, array $options)” in BookmarksTable.php is ever even called. I know it is not being called because I can type some garbage into the function body and I do not generate an error.

Is there a step missing in the tutorial? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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In the tutorial we bake 3 tables, but do not bake the bookmarks_tags table

cause you dont need that table its Associations - Linking Tables Together - 3.10 relation so in this case you just need table in database but not in CakePHP

I can’t find where the function “findTagged(Query $query, array $options)” in BookmarksTable.php is ever even called

its all here Bookmarker Tutorial - 3.10 what you are looking for is Retrieving Data & Results Sets - 3.10

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Thank you for the reply. I still don’t see how/where the custom finder method is being called. I also don’t understand why I don’t have any data in my bookmarks_tags database table.

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I still don’t see how/where the custom finder method is being called

// Use the BookmarksTable to find tagged bookmarks.
   $bookmarks = $this->Bookmarks->find('tagged', [
   'tags' => $tags
]);

I also don’t understand why I don’t have any data in my bookmarks_tags database table.

isnt that in 2nd part of tutorial (edit & add)? Bookmarker Tutorial Part 2 - 3.10

5

Thanks again. I guess I need to spend more time with part 1. According to the tutorial I should be presented with my bookmarks. I must have overlooked something somehow. Back to square one I guess.

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After playing around with this some, I find that if I manually enter the FOREIGN KEY values into the bookmarks_tags database table, the app displays the bookmarks.

So, the problem is that it isn’t inserting the FOREIGN KEY values into the bookmarks_tags database table when new tags are created.