Namespace Cake\Database\Expression

Class summary

• BetweenExpression

  An expression object that represents a SQL BETWEEN snippet

• CaseExpression

  This class represents a SQL Case statement

• Comparison

  A Comparison is a type of query expression that represents an operation involving a field an operator and a value. In its most common form the string representation of a comparison is field = value

• FunctionExpression

  This class represents a function call string in a SQL statement. Calls can be constructed by passing the name of the function and a list of params. For security reasons, all params passed are quoted by default unless explicitly told otherwise.

• IdentifierExpression

  Represents a single identifier name in the database

• OrderByExpression

  An expression object for ORDER BY clauses

• OrderClauseExpression

  An expression object for complex ORDER BY clauses

• QueryExpression

  Represents a SQL Query expression. Internally it stores a tree of expressions that can be compiled by converting this object to string and will contain a correctly parenthesized and nested expression.

• TupleComparison

  This expression represents SQL fragments that are used for comparing one tuple to another, one tuple to a set of other tuples or one tuple to an expression

• UnaryExpression

  An expression object that represents an expression with only a single operand.

• ValuesExpression

  An expression object to contain values being inserted.

Interface summary

• FieldInterface

  Describes a getter and a setter for the a field property. Useful for expressions that contain an identifier to compare against.

Traits summary

• FieldTrait

  Contains the field property with a getter and a setter for it