Select all except one field in cakephp 3 query

Question

I just want to select all fields except one field in cakephp 3.

Ex. $this->select('fname', 'lname', 'mname', 'email', 'password', 'status', 'created', 'modified');

Here i want to select all fields except created and modified because my other table have apprx 30 fields and i want to select 28 fields and don't want to mentioned each and every field in select function because it is time consuming.

Can you please suggest a better way.

Answer 1

As of CakePHP 3.6 the selectAllExcept() method has been introduced, which will select all columns from the schema that belongs to the given table, except those columns passed in the second argument:

$query->selectAllExcept($table, ['modified', 'created']);

In earlier versions you'd have to do that manually, ie grab all the possible columns from the schema and remove those that you don't want to include, like:

$query->select(
    array_diff($table->schema()->columns(), ['modified', 'created']);
);

On a related note, check the following issue that asks for a deselect functionality: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/6904

See also

• Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Query Builder > Selecting Specific Fields

Answer 2

You could just find all and then at runtime hide what you dont need

$model->hiddenProperties(['modified', 'created']);