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Check Member / User Online or Offline Status

By Imran
The following piece of code will calculate the last visited time of a Member/User and calulate the time difference with current time. And if the Member/User last visited time is greater than 10 minutes then that will be considered OFFLINE otherwise ONLINE.
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Introducing VaM Cart

By Alexandr Menovchicov
VaM Cart - Free, Open Source CakePHP Based Shopping Cart.

Official Site - http://vamcart.com/ Online Demo - http://vamcart.com/demo/
Admin: http://vamcart.com/demo/admin/
Login: admin
Password: password

* Easy Installation.
* CSS, JS minify and compress.
* SEO - Search Engine Optimization.
* Unlimited Categories, Products.
* CakePHP, MVC, Smarty.
* Multi Language, Multi Currency.
* Templatable.
* Open Source.
* Automatic Image Resize.
* Product Reviews.
* Coupons...

Join Us.
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For beginners: famous pitfalls with cake development

By Alex Marquardt
Starting from scratch in cakephp is not always easy, especially when you are not used to MVC frameworks.
I hope this will help other beginners to make their life easier ;-)
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Glasses Bought Online----Least Money, Best Quality

By Gemma
Vision Library is the information source in area of vision care, including eyeglasses, sunglasses, contact lenses, sports protective eyewear, vision error and diseases, vision surgery, ageing and kid's vision etc., solely sponsored by Firmoo.com, an emerging online optical store.
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October 30 - 31, CakeMatsuri Tokyo

By Yusuke Ando
Last year, we had a CakePHP conference in Tokyo.
The event will come back again as "Matsuri" We are waiting attendees from Asia and whole world.
We will lunch our website and ticket detail soon.

"Matsuri" means festival in Japanese.
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How to Add AutoComplete to Eclipse/Aptana

By gravy face
In this article I'll show you how to add autocomplete to Eclipse/Aptana for models, components, and helpers. Thanks goes out to schneimi and voidstate's on Google Groups for figuring this trick out.
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Report: CakePHP meet-up at Tokyo 4th

By Yusuke Ando
We had a CakePHP meet-up in tokyo. It was really exciting night.
Special CakePHP pancake came on party! This article includes the photos and the movies.

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Rebuilding MySQL Tables based on Model Cache

By Jim Walker
By reading the title of this article you know something has gone horribly wrong. Which was the case earlier today when my development server crashed with our teams shared database on it. While we did have backups of most of the data a few of the tables and a couple smaller projects were not so lucky.
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Where should my code go?

By Auzigog
This article helps you understand where you should place new code within the model-view-controller design pattern.
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How to fix backspace printing caret-H in the cake console

By Jimmy Cuadra
If keys such as backspace and the arrow keys are printing control characters instead of doing what you expect, the solution is quite simple.
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Cryptography and the Auth component

By Andrew Allen
Learn how, and why the auth component is so secure for your passwords.
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CakePHP for TextMate

By Matthew Harris
Do you like Cake? Are you a TextMate user? Well, then maybe the CakePHP bundle for TextMate is just what you need!
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Cake PHP Rocks

By Sai Machavarapu
I have successfully created a website using Cake within a short period of time. It works great and cake framework simply rocks.
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What's Up, Docs?

By John David Anderson
If CakePHP is the best framework out there, why aren't the documentation efforts up to par? Ever wondered how you can help? Find out how.

Check out CakePHP's newest tool: the Cookbook.
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Cakephp footnotes (on base of notepad_plus_plus). Part I. Basic solution.

By Yevgeny Tomenko
It is very usefull during development if you have ability of navigation dirrectly to source code from explorer page.
I create such solution for my editor Notepad++.
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Easy Syntax Highlighting in UltraEdit

By Paul Redmond
UltraEdit was my answer for enabling .thtml syntax highlighting without hassle. Change two lines in the UltraEdit config. file, and .thtml files rely on previous settings for html and PHP highlighting. Sweet!
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Cake Conventions

By Tamas Amon
This is the Cake Conventions from the old wiki site.
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Clear the PHP4 warnings when working in eclipsePHP

By Benjamin Hill
A series of search-and-replace that you can run on the latest alpha release to clear the majority of EclipsePHP's warnings, without (hopefully!) breaking anything.
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10 confusions with their solutions before you start using CakePHP

By Abhimanyu Grover
Most of the new developers are afraid of spending time with new stuff in market. This article will guide you about the confusions and how to overcome them.
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Turn on syntax highlighting for editing .thtml files in Vim

By Don Voita
If you use Vim to edit your Views, here's how to turn on syntax highlighting.
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introduction to dAuth v0.3

By Dieter Plaetinck
This article introduces dAuth V0.3: the authentication (not authorisation) system with a focus on security, using techniques such as challenge-response, customizable multiple-stage password hashing, brute force (hammering) detection etc.
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Loading SQL with table prefixes

By zomg
Your project uses a table prefix because you share a database, or you don’t want to clash table names. Maybe you just like the groupings that prefixes provide. Now what if someone hands you some SQL code that you need to load, but it doesn’t have your prefixes applied? What do you do?
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Symlinking to svn copies

By gwoo
If you want to keep one install of CakePHP for all your applications, then you may want to use a symlink to make it easier when you want to adjust your index.php.
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CakePHP vs. Ruby on Rails

By Matt Bowden
Why I chose CakePHP over Ruby on Rails for my websites.
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Toggling items with javascript

By Dieter Plaetinck
This tutorial explains how you can toggle (expand/collapse) certain items on your webpage using javascript (without the need of new pagerequests)
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