Promet CakePHP Source » discovery http://cakephp.prometsupport.com Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:03:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What is compact() in controller? http://cakephp.prometsupport.com/2008/what-is-compact-in-controller/ http://cakephp.prometsupport.com/2008/what-is-compact-in-controller/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 07:14:37 +0000 rachel http://cakephp.prometsupport.com/2008/05/23/what-is-compact-in-controller/ User->Teacher->find('list'); $this->set(compact('users')); compact is a [...]]]> I don’t know how much functions in php I do not know but everyday I am finding new ones specially when I started tinkering CakePHP 1.2 last week. And my latest discovery is …. compact function. After using the console script, I found this code in the controllers


$users = $this->User->Teacher->find('list');
$this->set(compact('users'));

compact is a native PHP function that creates an array containing variables and their values. Chris Hartjes explains it well in his blog. It’s quite neat because it will save me a few lines and spaces.

There you go, our new gem today: compact()

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