Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 2
26 Oct 2011 |
Tags: deployment, chef, cakephp
What goes in a Chef Recipe, and how much do I really need to know about resources?
Read More…Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 3
17 Jan 2012 |
Tags: deployment, chef, cakephp
Templating, Custom Resources, and Cookbook creation for the Chef Deployment Tool
Read More…26 Oct 2011 |
Tags: deployment, chef, cakephp
Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 1
03 Oct 2011 |
Tags: deployment, chef, capistrano
This text is the first in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011. It will also hopefully apply to more than CakePHP.
Read More…A CakePHP Book I can finally recommend
19 Jun 2011 |
Tags: book, cakephp, application
Review of Mariano Iglesias' CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook
Read More…A Standard Readme for your CakePHP Plugins
Please stop using jank readmes for your CakePHP plugins, and use something like this instead.
Read More…Carl Sutton of Infinitas CMS
27 Mar 2011 |
Tags: cakephp, infinitas, cms
Infinitas CMS is a pretty well-built and performant CMS, and Carl Sutton has a few thoughts to share on CakePHP in general.
Read More…Fahad Ibnay Heylaal, creator of Croogo CMS
What does Fahad think about Croogo, CakePHP, and the CakePHP community in general?
Read More…Using loadModel() in the Model
How do you use loadModel() in the CakePHP Model? Hint, you don't. There are other ways though.
Read More…Why CakePHP documentation sucks and what I'm doing about it
13 Sep 2010 |
Tags: cakephp, github, side projects
When people complain about documentation, the solution is to write more, and better, documentation.
Read More…Cakefest Conference Notes
04 Sep 2010 |
Tags: cakephp, conference, cakefest
CakeFest 2010 Conference notes and links
Read More…CakePHP Plugins - A Biblical Retelling
A list of CakePHP plugins I use and abuse on a daily basis, as well as things I've discovered but haven't found a use for but seem to be cool.
Read More…Drop-down select fields in CakePHP
For anyone wishing to make dropdown select fields in CakePHP forms happen automagically, here are some facts.
Read More…You want access? Well you no can has! - A CakePHP AccessComponent
One of the things I am working on is Authentication and Access Control. While Authsome Component takes care of authentication, we still need something more.
Read More…Clean up your Model data with Purifiable Behavior
Sanitizing saved data when rendering the view is stupid, and it should be done when creating/updating records.
Read More…How to Grow or A Look Back at 2009
2009 wasn't so bad, and here's how it owned face for me.
Read More…How CakePHP Automagic fails me (or How I failed at the FormHelper)
Getting CakePHP form urls to generate correctly might be difficult if you don't know how the default url is created.
Read More…Quick Tip - Bring Out Yer Queries
Log your queries to find out what CakePHP is doing when it has 9 million blobs or is taking 34234 years to process.
Read More…Quick Tip - Translating Model Variables
28 Nov 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, quicktip, internationalization
Translating CakePHP Model variables and validation rules isn't straight-forward to new developers. However, it is possible through the use of the class constructor.
Read More…Inflect Shell - Inflect the heck out of your word(s)
28 Nov 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, cakeshell, inflector
CakePHP provides us with a nice little Inflector class. It's quite useful in creating slugs, but can't be used for testing purposes without creating a dummy page.
Read More…Thoughts - An API for Plugin Installation
One of my current projects is a CakePHP plugin server. The existing sample was created by John David Anderson of http://www.thoughtglade.com. It is neat and all, and one of the first things I came across when looking at CakePHP 11 months ago.
Read More…Quick Tip - Model::save() isn't Model::saveAll()
A very small example on when to use Model::save() versus Model::saveAll()
Read More…Rails-Style Error Messages in CakePHP
A simple CakePHP helper for outputting grouped error messages as in the Ruby on Rails framework.
Read More…CakePHP HABTM Relationships
22 Nov 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, habtm, relationships
A slightly misguided post on CakePHP HABTM relationships
Read More…Allow Subdirectories Apache
Example .htaccess file for allowing custom subdirectories in your CakePHP application under Apache
Read More…Cacheable Behavior
04 Sep 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, behaviors, caching
Cacheable Model behavior caches views pertaining to model records to the disk via a RequestAction hack.
Read More…ResourceHelper
A general purpose helper to support random functionality that need not be in it's own helper. Has BlueprintCSS support, jQuert ASM HABTM, File displaying, jQuery Error displaying and Google Maps support.
Read More…Hide Plugin Prefixes in Routed Urls
Hack on the CakePHP Router to hide the plugin prefix in connected routes
Read More…Conditionally Load Javascript
03 Sep 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, conditional, javascript
Example of loading javascript files in 1.2 based on the current controller/action path
Read More…Conditional Loading of Helpers
03 Sep 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, helpers, conditional
Example of conditionally loading helpers in a view
Read More…Application Settings
Snippet of code to load application-level settings from the database
Read More…Adding a Helper/Behavior/Component on the fly
14 Aug 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, behaviors, components
A short tutorial on adding behaviors/components/helpers to your application in a dynamic fashion
Read More…Trackable Behavior
15 Jun 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, trackable, behaviors
Trackable Behavior for CakePHP 1.2/1.3
Read More…Commentable Behavior
15 Jun 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, commentable, behaviors
Commentable Behavior for CakePHP 1.2
Read More…Yahoo Maps-based Geocoding
14 Jun 2009 |
Tags: cakephp, yahoo maps, geocoding
Very crude integration of Yahoo Maps and CakePHP using CURL
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