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CakeFest 2012

Tue, 08 May 2012 08:34:36 +0000

CakeFest is the annual CakePHP Conference. It brings together developers, users, and interested parties from all over the world for a four day event filled with workshops, talks, dinners, social events and plenty of fun!If you are interested in giving a talk at CakeFest, we still have submissions open! Just head over to the [CakeFest], sign up and submit your talk proposal via your account page...

CakePHP 2.1.2 & 2.2.0-beta released

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:58:38 +0000

The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the immediate availability of both CakePHP 2.1.2 [1], and 2.2.0-beta [2]. 2.1.2 is a bugfix release for the 2.1.x branch, while 2.2.0-beta is the first release for 2.2.x.

CakePHP 2.1.2

There are a number of bugfixes in 2.1.2, the most notable of those changes is:

Set::insert now overwrites values that were previously string values.
AuthComponent now uses l...

AWS SES component for CakePHP2.0 +

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:49:54 +0000

We use Amazon services for our day today applications & we use their SDK & write normal code to required controllers, So we planned to create a component for AWS service.Amazon Simple Email Service is a very popular email SMTP service by Amazon. It has lots of advantages like, Easy to use Good documentation Good fault tolerance Easy to integrate with existing architecture Detailed reporting abo...

Breadcrumbs trail for unordered pages

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:12:08 +0000

I also played with $referer variable, back button usage and javascript back-functions but in the end the trac was always getting kind of mixed up by functions / methods like save, edit, etc. This Component/Helper pack will allow you to customize methods and controllers to be ignored and to display a nice, clickable trail in the form ofComponent Component Component2 This bundle consists of a C...

GoogleChart helper

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:45:31 +0000

I needed simple access to Google Chart API for generating images. Please see examples below and method comments in source file to see how it works.

This plugin is for CakePHP 2.x

Example:

// Controller:public $helpers = array;

// View:// example of bar chartecho $this-GoogleChart-create-setType)-setSize-setMargins-addData)-addMarker)-addData)-addMarker)-addAxis))-addAxis);// example of pie chartec...

from Cake to Bake

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:18:10 +0000

1. Download the latest version of Cake from http://cakephp.org/2. Go to your Download folder , Extract the folder in the same location.3. Move the folder to your application root. if you face permission denied while copy/paste, use "gksu nautilus" to open the target location.4. Rename the folder, MyCake5. Use this to change permissions, "sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/MyCake/"6. Delete the folder n...

Prevent render layout elements with the render of some views!

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:07:03 +0000

Consider the following example, there is an element that displays the top searched keywords and it is named top_searches.ctp. This element is placed in the layout to be rendered under the search box element.Suppose now, we have an index view that lists all searched keywords and we don't want to make the top_searches elements to be rendered while we call the index view.We should add the followin...

Fixing and improving the TextHelper

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:05:13 +0000

[b][u]General[/u][/b]I created a new helper which the following file in "/app/view/helpers/Text2Helper.php":[code]?phpApp::import;class Text2Helper extends TextHelper {public function function_name {// some code// if you want to extend functionality, maybe you want// to call the parent functionparent::function_name;}}?[/code]You can overwrite and create new functions in this file.Note that you ...

User Management Premium Plugin for cakephp 2.x

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:24:06 +0000

I have launched premium version of User Management PluginDemo at http://umpremium.ektasoftwares.comThere are lots of features and you will like them definitely......So guys don't go here and there just look these features at demo site.

SELECT FOR UPDATE (hack) (kind of ugly but it works) (PostgreSQL and MySql)

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:16:22 +0000

Sometimes one needs to do a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE in order to preserve the integrity of our transactions. The problem can be seen easily with the following example:Suppose we have a user, an `account table` with the `account.available_money` field on it. Suppose the user has initially $100.The problem arrives if the hacker manages to concurrently run two processes ` and `save` are shown) :One p...

CakeApp with TwitterBootstrap

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:21:53 +0000

Twitter Bootstrap appears to be a very successful CSS framework, and I must agree. There is a js library that you can include which will help you get TB setup, but I wanted to take it one step further.I created "CakeApp" Which is a CakeApp with some niceties already added in there for you. Including Jquery and a pre-configured TB, which should have everything as of 4/13/12. Also, the homepage h...

Zhen CRM: open-source CakePHP CRM application

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:27:04 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Zhen CRM, an open source CRM solution built on CakePHP.Project page: http://telerim.github.com/Zhen-CRM/GitHub project: https://github.com/telerim/Zhen-CRMWhile this does not have the complicated features of enterprise CRMs, it has the basic features that most small businesses could use - such as contacts, tasks, "deals" and a calendar.In contrast to th...

Helper TinyMCE for CakePHP 2

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:11:44 +0000

[h3]TinyMCE[/h3]1. Download TinyMCE : [url]http://www.tinymce.com/download/download.php[/url] 2. Copy [i]/tinymce/jscripts/[b]tiny_mce[/b][/i] folder to [i]/app/webroot/js[/i] .[h3]Controller[/h3][code]public $helpers = array;[/code][h3]Helper code[/h3]app/View/Helper/TinymceHelper.php[code]?php App::uses; class TinymceHelper extends AppHelper { // Take advantage of other helpers public $helper...

Custom Fields Plugin for CakePHP 2.x

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:10:16 +0000

GitHub page: https://github.com/srs81/CakePHP-CustomFields# CustomFields Plugin for CakePHPA custom fields plugin for CakePHP 2.x. Now you can add custom fields to your CakePHP app and individual models/controllers without having to worry about database changes.## How to Use### Download or checkoutYou can either download the ZIP file:https://github.com/srs81/CakePHP-CustomFields/zipball/mastero...

Auth – inline authorization the easy way

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:35:42 +0000

### Status quoWe would need to check the session manually against the roles we want to grant access to. This can get pretty hairy with more than one role allowed .### PreparationsWe first need to make the class usable by putting this in our `/Config/bootstrap.php`:// these IDs match the role_ids in the DBdefine;define;define;define;// enable the Auth classApp::uses;I like to use constants as th...

AddressFinderHelper, a widget for cakephp 2.x forms

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:04:11 +0000

The helper is based on http://tech.cibul.net/geocode-with-google-maps-api-v3/ - most of the credit goes to their script.The code and usage instructions on Github:https://github.com/stefanomanfredini/AddressFinder-Helper---Plugin-for-cakephp-2I started using cakephp 2.x quite recently - this is my first helper for cakephp 2.x.. suggestions are welcome!

Minify plugin for CakePHP 2.0+

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:09:17 +0000

### InstallationYou can clone the plugin into your project ):`cd path/to/app/Plugin or /plugins``git clone https://github.com/maurymmarques/minify-cakephp.git Minify`Bootstrap the plugin in app/Config/bootstrap.php:`CakePlugin::load));`### ConfigurationSet the configuration file in your app/Config/core.php`Configure::write;`If you do not want to use compression, set false.Create a folder called...

PhpExcel helper for generating excel files

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:36:56 +0000

PHPExcel is a great library that can create XLS files. For more information see PHPExcel project homepage.

I added method for setting font and for easy table data adding .

This plugin is for CakePHP 2.x

Short example:

// Controller:public $helpers = array;

// View:$this-PhpExcel-createWorksheet;$this-PhpExcel-setDefaultFont;// define table cells$table = array, 'width' = 'auto', 'filter' = true),ar...

CakeHtmlHelper speed up your site enabling html cache - Cakephp 2.x

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:47:28 +0000

Okey, first you must have mod_rewrite enable to make the html cache working;[code] RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$ RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/$1/index.html -f RewriteRule ^$ /cache/$1/index.html [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^$ index.php?/$1 [QSA,L][/code]Now create the helper in the file View/Helper/CacheHtm...

ToastyCMS a CMS for people who love bread that is baked twice

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:29:49 +0000

I didn't follow any real software process so I lack documentation. I am still working on it but I am looking for some feedback. I have included some getting started information https://github.com/icompuiz/ToastyCMS/blob/master/READMEIt is built on CakePHP 2.0.1.I am thinking about reimplementing it with cakephp 2.1.1 and using more of the cakephp conventions like plugins to support extensibilit...