‘CakePHP’

10/Feb/10

Force CakePHP database to use UTF-8

In our current project at work (it’s very interesting, I’ll likely get a few posts out of it) we’ll have to accept input from a variety of sources. (no comments)

31/Jan/10

More on the Cache library

If you found Friday’s post on caching in CakePHP, Miles has posted a few pitfalls when working with the Cache engine. (no comments)

29/Jan/10

Caching “things” in CakePHP

There are a few ways to cache content in CakePHP. There is a feature to cache the output but I’ve found that a little tricky to get right in the past. When the cache expired the action wasn’t called so we had a page with no content… not quite the effect I was looking for. (no comments)

15/Jan/10

Accessing view variables from helpers

There is no official way to access your view variables in your view helpers. And there's probably a good reason for that, but heck, I'm on a deadline. (1 comment)

15/Nov/09

Insert rows in a loop in CakePHP

Having recently been building an import tool for our latest site at work, I was reminded of a very important thing to remember when creating rows in CakePHP. (2 comments)

26/Oct/09

Creating an extensible CMS with CakePHP

A few weeks ago I came across Wildflower, which, in the simplest terms, is a CMS built with CakePHP. (3 comments)

24/Oct/09

Two things keeping me with CakePHP

Yesterday’s post about CakePHP and Zend Framework seems to have caused a few ripples in CakePHP circles. I just want to make it clear that I won’t be switching from Cake over the changes to the team, I was just using the opportunity to check out what’s happened in the time since I last looked at ZF. (no comments)

23/Oct/09

Revisiting the Zend Framework

Those of you who read this blog regularly will know I’m a frequent user of CakePHP, but with the recent disturbance in the CakePHP world, maybe it’s time to have another look at the Framework market. (6 comments)

05/Oct/09

Pitfalls of beforeFilter and uses for beforeRender

There are 2 main callbacks for controllers in CakePHP: beforeFilter and beforeRender. (1 comment)

03/Sep/09

Forms without Form Helper in CakePHP

Let me start by saying that there very few reasons when you want to ignore the Form Helper and go it alone. That said, here is how you do it. (4 comments)