Code-Completion Console Script

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Many good IDEs for Webdevelopment cannot automatically understand the structure of a framework and its classes/objects. They need a small file initializing the objects so that they know in which context they appear. E.g.: $this->Session (Session Helper) its impossible for…

Helper? Component? Lib?

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Some ideas what to use if you want to add some additional feature. Feel free to comment on this below. Level of Independence We need to ask ourselves if this feature needs to interact with other cake elements, like controller,…

Tools Plugin – Part1: Token

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In this first part of the presentation of my tools plugin I will show you how you can easily manage (store, retrieve, validate) "code keys" alias "tokens". They are useful in the registration process of users, or if you want…

Working with forms

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The Cookbook only covers the real basics. I want to go over some common issues in a more detailed way for Cake1.3 apps. Dummy Values Dummy values for select fields are usually added in the view: /* (1) */ echo…

Cake Bake: Custom Templates

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The Problem The default templates of the "baking" process are not very useful for a productive environment. They are meant to rapidly produce working code for development purposes. This is actually great for that matter. But as soon as you…

CakePHP bootstrap goodies

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A list of some things quite handy for every cake app and therefore best placed in the bootstrap.php as they are not (yet) part of the cake core. # Useful when putting a string together in PHP define(‘LF’, PHP_EOL); define(‘NL’,…

Validating multiple models at once

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There are forms where you want to add/edit not only fields of the current model, but also of a related one (usually hasMany or belongsTo). Example: User and Post $this->Post->set($this->data); $this->Post->User->set($this->data); $val1 = $this->Post->validates(); $val2 = $this->Post->User->validates(); if ($val1 &&…

CakePHP and Subversion

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A Quick How-To about properly setting up a svn for your cake app. First of all, we need to drop a "trunk" folder into our svn: /trunk inside this trunk, we now add /app (actual app) /vendors (global vendors) /cake…

Roadmap

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To begin with, a little roadmap about what can be expected: Mostly CakePHP-Framework related stuff, but also common webdev. tips or android snippets. I will also try to cover some subversion topics.