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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...

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...

HTML 5 Multiple File Upload With Cake

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:58:38 +0000

With HTML5 comes the ability to select multiple files using a regular file input field.It took me a little while to work out how to do this so I thought I'd post it here.To start with we are trying to get html similar to this using the cake input helper. To achieve this we need to use the Form helper as so: ?php echo $this-Form-create); echo $this-Form-input); echo $this-Form-end; ?From the con...

960 Fluid Grid System Bake Templates CakePHP 2.1

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:09:11 +0000

Want to use 960 grid system in your baked app? Ever see this "fluid" template that uses it? http://www.designinfluences.com/fluid960gs - I put it into some bake templates.It's not that I don't like the default baked views, but I wanted something more generic and flexible. This template is extremely fast to work with too. You can add more boxes and other content very easily as opposed to the def...

jQuery Multi-input for CakePHP

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:33:34 +0000

men__1@mail.ru for any questions

Code for view:

<?phpecho $this-Html-script;echo $this-Html-script;echo $this-Form-create;echo $this-Form-input;?><div id="multi-input"> <?php echo $this-Form-input; echo $this-Form-input; ?></div><?phpecho $this-Form-end;?><script>$ { $.multinput;});</script>

Options for plugin:

myPag - Object for paginator. If not passed, the paginator will be posted after the curr...

Override/Extend Core Acl Component and DbAcl Class

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:56:04 +0000

THE PROBLEMWhile developing my application I decided to add some custom fields to my aros_acos permissions table. The extra fields were needed to provide an audit trail and also were needed by a custom function that automatically rebuilds the aros, acos and aros_acos tables while preserving existing permissions. This allowed me to continue to develop the application after it had been published ...

Cakephp breadcrumbs

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:39:38 +0000

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CakePHP CSV export Controller

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:20:44 +0000

/** * * Dynamically generates a .csv file by looping through the results of a sql query. * */function export{ini_set; //increase max_execution_time to 10 min if data set is very large//create a file$filename = "export_".date.".csv";$csv_file = fopen;header;header;$results = $this-ModelName-query;// This is your sql query to pull that data you need exported//or $results = $this-ModelName-find);/...

Check useragent for mobile device

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:17:34 +0000

if ) { define');}function isMobile { preg_match; if ) { return true; } return false;}

Optimize URL Generator

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:34:45 +0000

It is important to note that each time you put a link in your view, the Router::url method is called and the URL string is computed.Now think about a page full of links, and also you'll see that this URLs have common parts. For example, the typical index actions shows a list rows, and in each row there is a link to edit and delete. The fact is that this links have the pattern /:controller/:acti...

Migrations

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:28:03 +0000

Everybody knows how hard is to keep a database up-to-date, when you work with more than one programmer at the same time, in the same project. On my company, we started to use a directory, containing all .sql files, with CREATE TABLEs, INSERTs and UPDATEs. But today I thought that we could make it even better to manage them.

I read about CakePHP's migration script, but just couldn't make it work....

Update ARO alias on save

Thu, 26 May 2011 13:58:15 +0000

If you look into the default AclBehavior here you can see around line 98 to 100 that it saves all other fields relating to the ARO except for its alias. While there are countless ways around this, I quite like the fact that the AclBehavior nicely ties in with Auth without too much extra code. Therefore to fix this I decided to write my own extension to the AclBehavior that could be simply inser...

Redirect all 404s to Index Page in Cake PHP

Sat, 07 May 2011 12:17:26 +0000

class AppError extends ErrorHandler { function error404 { // redirect to homepage $this->controller->redirect; }}

SQL Dump Task for Shells

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:10:14 +0000

When using shells there is no standard interface to dump out your SQL queries like there is in the controller. To do this I have created the SqlDump task that you can use in your shell. This code was taken directly from the built in cake\libs\view\elements\sql_dump.ctp code. You can use it to get a dump in array format or have it create a .csv file.[code]?php/** * SQL Dump Task. Dumps out SQL l...

CakePHP - Quick record actions

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:28:41 +0000

function quick_actions { $action = $this-data[$form]['actions']; App::Import; $this-DynamicModel = new $form; if { foreach { if { $this-DynamicModel-delete; $this-Session-setFlash; $return = true; } } } if { foreach { if { if ,array)) { $this-Session-setFlash; $return = true; } } } } if { foreach { if { if ,array)) { $this-Session-setFlash; $return = true; } } } } if { foreach { if { if ,array)...

Display TYPO3 content using CakePHP

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:05:12 +0000

Access the software at http://schettler.net/fossil/t3c and take part in this exciting new way to build TYPO3 backed websites. The software has the following properties[ulist][li]No TypoScript used[/li][li]Can display almost all content types from the TYPO3 demo installation, using standard CakePHP view elements. The set of content types supported is continuously being updated. Patches welcome![...

Robust crypt functionality for use in CakePHP

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:49:09 +0000

[b][p]Catch the updated and easier to use CryptClass at Github here:-[url]https://github.com/ndejong/CryptClass[/url][/p][/b][p]The most common scenario is that where you need to pass application state around that involves data that you do not want users to see or tamper with. If you are dealing with your own application you would just use a user session data-store or encode it an drop it into ...

Use different configs for different environments

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:52:10 +0000

So, my method works in a similar way to Rails, by using an environment variable to set the current environment , and loading the corresponding config file.This means you can keep your production config in version control, and not have to edit it on your live servers. You just deploy however you normally would , and the live config is updated - much nicer in my opinion.To get this to work, add t...

jQuery image upload & crop

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:20:44 +0000

[h3]Requirements[/h3][ulist][li]PHP 4 or Higher [/li][li]PHP GD Library[/li][li]jQuery[url]http://jquery.com/[/url][/li][li]Image Area Select plugin - [url]http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/[/url][/li][/ulist][h3]Installation[/h3]Ok, now we must create a new Component called "JqImgcrop".Let`s create a new file called "jq_imgcrop.php" in yourapp/controllers/components/ with following con...

Simple XML-RPC Services Implementation

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:55:05 +0000

[b]STEP 1:[/b]Download a XML-RPC server implementation library. I used my favorite library "XML-RPC for PHP" written by Edd Dumbill, Gaetano Giunta, Miles Lott, Justin R. Miller, and Andres Salomon. It comes with extremely well written documentation and sample files. You can download the library from http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/I have used 3.0.0beta for this tutorial.[b]STEP 2:[/b]Copy [i]...