Have you ever wondering how to find MAX, MIN or AVG of a database table column in CakePHP way? Well I haven’t since yesterday. The solution is quite simple and obvious.
Lets say you want to show the average views per post (in the example we have the views field in every post).
The SQL should be something like this:
Instead of using query() function you can use the CakePHP way:
Hope this will help someone.
Today I found a class written in PHP which implement the idea of using SQL syntax while parsing HTML documents – htmlSQL. The idea of the author – Jonas David John – is quite simple. If you want to parse a HTML document, let’s way you want to parse all divs with class “row”,the syntax will look like normal SQL:
Looking familiar isn’t it? There is also function connect() /which define the html source/ and fetch_array() which contain the results after the query.
There are few examples included in the library package and here is the simplest one:
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