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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...

SOPA Blackout component

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:09:09 +0000

On the Tuesday 24th January 2012, the US Senate will vote on the internet censorship bill.Whilst it is an American law, it has far reaching repurcusions for the web as a whole. Sites such as Reddit have said that on January 18th they are going to go dark between 8am and 8pm.This component will let you join the cause. On 18th January your site will display a customisable page.Search engine ranki...

Layout Component

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:18:29 +0000

I am using Cake 2.0 Using themes and redering different view files based on theme, I cam across a limitation which locks you into using the same layouts for view files in each theme. I had a need to change the layout in a new theme so did not want to load the same layout file in app/views/layouts which is dictated by the controller. So I came up with a configurable approach to loading layouts w...

Layout Component

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:17:59 +0000

CakePHP 2 Captcha Component Based on Simple Math Problems

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:12:35 +0000

# MathCaptcha Component for CakePHP 2. #Generates a basic math equation with human phrasing to prevent automated spam.It's still very much beatable by sophisticated spam bots but tends to prevent 99%of a website's usual spam anyways.Updates will be published on my [code blog].Inspired by and partially based on [Jamie Nay's] cakePHP 1.2 Math Captcha class.Features:+ differently phrased math prob...

ImageTool

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:49:52 +0000

Component for processing images Works with CakePHP 2.0, CakePHP 1.3 or as standalone class Code and examples on github: https://github.com/raitisg/CakePHP-ImageTool-Component

Cake PHP Optimal Payment Component with ccPurchase, ccAuthorize, ccVerification, ccSettlement, ccStoredDataPurchase and ccStoredDataAuthorize

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:49:02 +0000

After few days days of testing in live of this the component, I have decided to publish this component to open source to community. I have implemented because, I found the lack of proper PHP codes for O ptimal Payment. Even though the implementation is too power full it lacks proper documentation and PHP codes. I have implemented same for cake php 2.0 . But I will release the Core PHP version i...

elRTE and elFinder Component + Helper

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:53:41 +0000

1- Download the content from http://elrte.org/ and put it in your js public folder/js/elrte/ and css also. Do the same for elFinder.2 - Create in your public folder one folder called public_upload3 - Put the class elFinder.class.php in vendor dir.

Helper

?php class CkHelper extends Helper { var $helpers = Array; function loadLibs { return $this-Html-css.$this-Html-script).$this-Html-script).$this...

ComponentLoader to load components on the fly

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:25:17 +0000

There are a number of scripts that have been floating around on the internet, showing how to create a ComponentLoader in CakePHP. However, I find that these loaders are not complete, as they don't load up all the associated components, nor do they execute all the callbacks.This component has been based heavily on those on the fly component loaders, but also expands heavily on them.Loading compo...

Image Resizer Component for CakePHP2

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:42:14 +0000

I needed an easy way to resize photos in many controllers, and I noticed there was no ImageResize component currently out for CakePHP2. Well, now there is all you do is add 'ImageResizer' to your components array and bingo your ready to go. Its a very solid code base and does utilize exceptions for problems like file not found or invalid file format which can be caught.Get the source and usage ...

CakePHP 2.0.0-RC1 Phpbb3Authenticate

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:53:28 +0000

I've just created an Auth plugin that allows the use of phpBB3 users table. I want to share it with cakephp users because i found it really interesting and usefull, mostly for developers who wants to integrate their app with a forum to create a community.You can find it here:https://github.com/ilmattodel93/cakephp-phpbb3authenticate

Paypal Pro Component

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:25:02 +0000

[b]CakePHP: Paypal Pro Component for Credit Card Payments[/b][code]?php//Author: Jagjit Singh Bhari//File: /app/controllers/components/paypal.php//@Copyright 2011 class PaypalComponent extends Object{var $API_Endpoint,$version,$API_UserName,$API_Password,$API_Signature,$nvp_Header, $subject, $AUTH_token,$AUTH_signature,$AUTH_timestamp;var $components=array;function __construct{if)$this-API_User...

ShortenComponent - A Component for URL Shortening

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:36:25 +0000

Well, I've made my first CakePHP Component, it's for URL Shortening and currently supports a number of shorteners such as:

kwn.me

bit.ly

goo.gl

YOURLS

You can find usage cases here: http://onemorefunction.com/blog/examples/shorten

You can download the actual component file here: https://github.com/MadMikeyB/CakePHP-Scrapbook/blob/master/components/shorten.php

Also, please remember to fill out all A...

Website Title and Character Set Component

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:45:46 +0000

?php/* * Copyright 2011 Arron Bailiss * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF...

Website Title and Character Set Component

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:32:08 +0000

?php/* * Copyright 2011 Arron Bailiss  * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF...

Post/Redirect/Get design pattern component

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:14:31 +0000

This component has two methods:[b]redirect[/b] - makes the actual redirect and conversion between POST data and GET data. After calling redirect the data is available in $this-params['named'][b]decode[/b] - needed for converting back the previous POST data located now in $this-params['named'] after using redirect. After calling decode the data is back in $this-dataThe data is transported by HTT...

Attempt Component

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:26:34 +0000

API---### countReturns the number of failed attempts for a certain action.### limitReturns false if the number of failed attempts is bigger than the passed limit.### failCreates a failed attempt that counts towards the limit for the passed duration### resetDeletes all failed attempts for a certain action### cleanupDeletes all expired failed attempts from the database. This should be run via Cak...

TwitterComponent for CakePHP

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:34:37 +0000

1. Installation, setup and authentication

1. First you need to visit https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new and register your new Twitter App.
2. Next you need to download the CakePHP-TwiterComponent from GitHub and extract the files in /app/controllers/components and create there a folder called Twitter.
3. Now you're able to use the TwitterComponent like an 'usual' component in every controller you li...

LogUtil Component

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:25:43 +0000

Before we starting this tutorial ,we should note about That you can find all steps in attachment.I put all your prerequisite in my weblog. you could download them from https://sites.google.com/site/miladjafary/cake-php-modules/

I packed app folder of cakePHP which I run it before and attached it as zip file,so that you can download it and see the result.

Let's Go:

1)You need to the table which cou...

Default action component

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:27:35 +0000

? class DefaultActionComponent extends Object{ function startup { if ) { if && method_exists) { # Use the 'admin_' version if desired. $prefix = !empty ? $controller-params['prefix'] : null; $action = !empty ? "{$prefix}_{$controller-defaultAction}" : $controller-defaultAction; array_unshift; # Put old 1st param into passed list... $params = array_merge; $controller-action = $action; $output = ...