Hello Group,
I am new to this group and CakePHP.
I am dealing with a site that is build using CakePHP version 1.3.8. When adding a new user, everything works fine. When modifying a user (either through admin’s account or through the user’s account) the save function keeps the URL of the page (with client ID in url as it should) but the page doesn’t add the updated data to the database, and gives a 404 page. When the URL is copied and entered again in browser the User’s page appears, but like I mentioned no changes to the User’s information was recorded. See the start and end of the form functions, there are a lot of fields in this form.
I was told that this form was working properly a couple months ago (I just recently have been looking into this issue), and then one day the saving of the form stopped.
For example:
When I am logged in as an administrator and go view all users (/admin/admin/view_all_users) and I click to edit user ID=“305880” (/admin/admin/user_edit/305880), after making changes to the form I click save (Enregistrer) and the URL I come back to is the same (/admin/admin/user_edit/305880) but displays a 404 page. I can then copy the URL into another tab and the page loads (without any changes saved).
So I’ve been digging through the CakePHP files for the past couple days and I must say it’s a bit overwhelming with what seems like duplicate files/functions in similar filenames with a Postfix of “_bu” (maybe because of the way the original developer built it).
Anyways, what I found is the following, please let me know if I am even looking in the right spot…
So as I posted yesterday, the form is in app/views/admin/admin_user_edit.php
`<?php echo $this->Form->create("User", array("url" => array("controller" => "admin", "action" => $this->params["action"]))); ?>
There are many fields > echo $this->Form->input("…");, etc…
I did also find a function in app/controllers/admin_controller.php
`function admin_user_edit($id = NULL){
$new_user = false;
if (!$id){
$new_user = true;
}
if (!empty($this->data)){
//print_r($this->data);
$this->_uz_remove_data_not_to_be_saved("UserAddress");
$this->_uz_remove_data_not_to_be_saved("UserPhone");
$this->_uz_remove_data_not_to_be_saved("UserEmail");
$this->_uz_remove_data_not_to_be_saved("UserLink");
$this->_uz_remove_data_not_to_be_saved("UserContact");
//print_r($this->data);
//special for new user
if ($new_user){
$this->User->save($this->data, array("validate" => false));
$id = $this->User->id;
$this->data['User']['user_id'] = $id;
}
//pr($this->data);
//validate password
if (!empty($this->data['User']['password']) && !empty($this->data['User']['confirm_password'])){
if ($this->data['User']['confirm_password'] == $this->data['User']['password']){
}
else {
unset($this->data['User']['password']);
unset($this->data['User']['confirm_password']);
}
}
else {
unset($this->data['User']['password']);
unset($this->data['User']['confirm_password']);
}
if (!empty($this->data['ExpertisesUser']['expertise_id'])){
$all_eus = $this->data['ExpertisesUser']['expertise_id'];
unset($this->data['ExpertisesUser']);
foreach ($all_eus as $k => $v){
unset($temp);
$temp['user_id'] = $this->data['User']['user_id'];
$temp['expertise_id'] = $v;
$this->data['ExpertisesUser'][] = $temp;
}
}
else {
unset($this->data['ExpertisesUser']);
}
if (!empty($this->data['UserCircusField']['circus_field_id'])){
$all_eus = $this->data['UserCircusField']['circus_field_id'];
unset($this->data['UserCircusField']);
foreach ($all_eus as $k => $v){
unset($temp);
$temp['user_id'] = $this->data['User']['user_id'];
$temp['circus_field_id'] = $v;
$this->data['UserCircusField'][] = $temp;
}
}
else {
unset($this->data['UserCircusField']);
}
//delete previous circus fields and expertises first
if (!$new_user){
$this->loadModel("UserCircusField");
$this->loadModel("ExpertisesUser");
$this->UserCircusField->deleteAll(array("UserCircusField.user_id" => $this->data['User']['user_id']), false);
$this->ExpertisesUser->deleteAll(array("ExpertisesUser.user_id" => $this->data['User']['user_id']), false);
}
$this->loadModel("UserProfile");
unset($this->UserProfile->validate);
if ($this->User->saveAll($this->data)){
if ($new_user){
$redirect = array("action" => "new_user_order_creation", $this->data['User']['user_id']);
}
else {
$redirect = array("action" => "user_edit", $this->data['User']['user_id']);
}
$this->Session->setFlash("Utilisateur enregistré !", "fs");
$this->redirect($redirect);
}
else {
if ($new_user){
$this->User->delete($this->data['User']['user_id']);
unset($this->data['User']['user_id']);
}
$this->Session->setFlash("Utilisateur non enregistré. Vérifiez les erreurs ci-dessous.", "fe");
}
}
else {
//new user/////////////
if ($new_user){
$this->loadModel("UserProfile");
$max_member_number_temp = $this->UserProfile->find('first', array("recursive" => -1, "order" => "UserProfile.member_number DESC", "limit" => 1));
$this->data['UserProfile']['member_number'] = $max_member_number_temp['UserProfile']['member_number'] + 1;
$this->data['UserProfile']['member_since'] = date("Y-m-d");
$this->data['UserProfile']['membership_expiry'] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+ 1 year"));
$this->set('crumb', array("Utilisateurs" => array("action" => "view_all_users"), "Nouvel utilisateur" => array()));
}
//edit user/////////////
else {
$this->data = $this->User->find('first', array('conditions' => array("User.user_id" => $id)));
$this->set('crumb', array("Utilisateurs" => array("action" => "view_all_users"), "# " . $id => array("action" => "user_edit11", $id)));
}
}
$this->_get_countries();
$this->_get_regions();
$this->_get_companies();
$this->_get_main_activity_fields();
$this->_get_expertises();
$this->_get_circus_fields();
$this->_get_membertypes();
}`
If I am not in the right place, please let me know where I should be looking for the user_edit function. NOTE, the same issue happens for users (non admin) when they edit their profile or other info. Add works, edit does not… so I’m a little lost 
Any help is greatly appreciated. I can also send snippets of code if need be.
Thank you in advance!
josh