I put together a CakePHP behaviour for generation of permalinks as a record is saved to the database.

This has been shown to help with search engine optimisation, getting important keywords and phrases into your site URLs.

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[b]Background[/b] As software developers, many projects that we work on require us to store "variable variable data". This means that we may not know exactly what data will be stored in the application during conception, planning, or developmen...

There's more than just $this->query('my_stored_proc_sp'); to calling stored procedures in SQL Server.

I have a few tables that contain a field that needs to be photo or other type of file that needs to be uploaded. Instead of writing upload stuff for each method I just built a behavior to handle it.

This is a model behavior that will allow you to easily work with tables that are structured to be key/value storage tables.

Are you tired of setting same validation message for each rules in your models or inside the forms. If so, then my tiny ValidationMessage Behavior will help you to get ride of this boring work. It will attach message to each of...

I had a few different forms and needed different validation rules for each. For example an administrator could insert any type of data about a client, but a client would be required to insert all their information.

A plugin behavior that provides a way of finding all records in batches rather than all at once, so that you can loop through huge lists of records without running out of memory.

After searching all around google and backery, reading the few articles that I've found, I've wrote my own class to implement model inheritance in Cakephp. Using Behaviors. I'm going to post only the code for the behavior with a little expla...

A little behavior that enables you to use (nested) transactions in 1.2+ with MySQL.

After some really shoddy implementations of this functionality as components and whatnot, I finally made a clean and simple behavior which you can use naturally as a custom find type, even within paginate(). It will also sort the results for yo...

I have often found the need to have the result of a find( 'all' ) keyed to the tables id. I had been doing this in the code with an, often expensive, foreach loop: [code]$keyResults = array(); foreach( $results as $result ) { $keyResults[ $re...

Behavior that enables you to config custom finds at Model in order to use with Model->find();

File Model behavior is a CakePHP behavior which is able to handle file uploads automatically.