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markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented. Find here some helpers to create, remove, switch markItUp! editor in your CakePhp projects.

Open Flash Chart (http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/) is a nice solution to drawing charts from data on your applications. This helper makes using Open Flash Chart with CakePHP simple.

I was looking for a resizing helper and found one which wasn't exactly what I was looking for so I tweaked it a bit.

Gravatars are very popular way for users to maintain the same avatar across multiple site using just their email address. This helpful helper makes it even easier to implement Gravatars into your site.

Tired of toggling between your widget, or lipsum.org, or your text file, etc. to pull in placeholder text?

Then this helper is for YOU!

I use jQuery becose is fast and concise Javascript library. My helper, jmycake, use jQuery for AJAX autocomplete.

A semi-useful helper that calculates the difference between two dates and gives it in *slightly* fuzzy logic: "almost 2 years," "over 1 month".

Working on a project that logs a lot of data I have found it useful to time the rendering-times of certain views, elements and other sections of code. I wrapped this code up info a helper just to have it handy. The same code can easily be put into a Component if it is controller-processing that needs measuring.

As i did not find the way to do it with the Cake FormHelper i will detail what i did and why.

The helper PcformHelper is usefull when you want to use the Security Component, and need to create an array of checkboxes.

Based on the workaround made for fckEditor, I've made a little helper to render easily a wysiwyg editor that IS xHTML 1.1 compliant :)

This helper assumes you are using the prototype.js framework.

xStandard

This helper takes your model validation rules and converts them to JavaScript so they can be applied in the client's browser before submitting to the server.

This is a helper for people using prototip. Prototip is available here: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip/files/prototip1.1.0.zip

The provided code was written for the 1.1.x branch of CakePHP. I would imagine that it would easily be updated for 1.2.x

When I was playing with images I always messed up with stuff which didn't belongs into view code. Like "if is_file(image" etc. but I want to be sure that there is going to be an image whether wanted or empty-image, so I wrote a following helper to make things easier.

Another JavaScript/CSS combiner and packer was recently posted to the Bakery. I felt it was a little configuration heavy and required too much manual intervention. This version is much more automated and requires virtually no code changes.

A helper to generate nested ULs OLs, DIVs or whatever from tree data.

Works best with the TreeBehavior, but not a requirement.

Map your entire web application's asset (JavaScript/CSS) includes with one file!

Easier way to manage JavaScript and CSS includes. Built on top of Asset Packer which compacts files and put them through CSS Tidy and JSMin.

A Helper class that integrates EQ Smooth Pie Graph with your Cake application. EQ Smooth Pie Graph generates pie charts with smooth edges, looks great, and it's free - read on.

This expands on the Smarty View code from Version 1.1. While its only a beginning, I am hoping someone else will pick up from what we had in version 1.1

CakePHP 1.2 allows you to override CakePHP's defined tags. Yeah, I know, so did CakePHP 1.1, but now you can define your own base helper, from which all CakePHP helpers will inherit, and only override the tags you decide. That's right, no more copying tags.ini.php to modify it. Just define what you need, and how you need it. Let's see how.

As there is no method for using Persian dates in PHP we had to use some codes to convert the dates. Using this helper you can convert the dates in a view. Use pdate_format() just like date() function in PHP.

JSMinHelper offers an easy to use interface for compressing and caching javascript files, reducing bandwidth and server load.

If you are tired of setting up breadcrumbs for your screens, this helper is for you.

On a typical search results page, you want to display an excerpt of each matching item, showing the keywords. TextHelper::excerpt() works, but only for a single word/phrase. This helper finds the chunk of text containing as many keywords as possible.

This is an intro on how to create well made tag clouds that are normalized based on relative scores. Feel free to use in your projects.

This helper provides an easy way to add social bookmarklet to your CakePHP based website.

This is a simple helper for people who want to use the lightbox.js

This is by no means the answer to all your color woes, as it only has one function at this time. But the function can be handy.

Need a way to distinguish one chunk from another? How about easy random background colors that are all within a reasonable range of values that look good with dark text.

There were a couple of things I didn't like about using $this->Session->setFlash(), so I wrote my own method for saving flashes and helper for displaying them.

I was recently outputting some comma-delimited data and thought I would benefit from a simple csv helper. I hope this helper benefits someone else as well. This is my first submission so please give any criticism.

Did you ever have a side navigation that you wanted to change based upon changes in the view? Using this helper, you can write HTML and other output for display in the layout. The output itself is written in the your view and then transfered to the layout.

A helper (method) to create a css formatable list-menu.

Debugging nested arrays with print_r() can be wicked tough but Krumo makes this task a little less crack-a-lackin.

Like cake isn't already doing enough magic...
Here is a helper to make it even better! Injects CSS/JS into the head tag in your layout and autoloads css/js files for you based on current controller and action.

Looking for a fairly simple way to create pagination in a style similar to Digg? Check this out.

This helper generates JavaScript validation based on the model's validate array, and also offers a few extra features.
These features include:
Server: a Ajax script to validate one field server-side (this was originally designed to make sure a field is unique on the table ie username or email)
Confirm: to check that two or more fields are equal (designed for password fields or to confirm email accounts)
Custom required fields: if you don't want to use strictly the model's validate array or if you want to append a few fields that may not actually appear in the array

Currently the validator uses a JavaScript alert to let user know what changes need to be made, but I am going to make it optional to have the results returned in a div tag of your choice as a unordered list. Until I finish that this will get you started.

Please let me know if this helps anyone, or how I could improve it.

A port of TEH(Textile Editor Helper) to Cake. See Original here: http://slateinfo.blogs.wvu.edu/plugins/textile_editor_helper

Helper method used to create multiple checkboxes.

Helper to creation of simple xls files.

In one of my CMS projects, I ran across a case where the user created a post of very long content that scrolled endlessly down the page. In an effort to make the content more easily readable, I created a Pagination helper that breaks that content into discrete blocks of content with "next" and "prev" links.

How to print barcode with cakephp and pdfb library

From a usablitiy stand point, multiple-select boxes are a nightmare. Forget to hold down the modifier key when adding an option and you loose all your selections. When the number of options are managable, multiple checkboxs are a better choice for average users. This functionality is coming to cake in future versions but you can have it now with this helper.

This is a helper and CSS file for displaying a dropdown menu on your site.

I wrote an helper that allow you to enjoy jQuery library by helping in script inclusion and plugin management.

As a newbie in cakePHP it is often hard to get all the constants right and not always easy to recognise, what is already defined in the cakePHP core of constants.

If you are having users register for your site, especially a customer - you may want to know their country of residence. Instead of having to create a select list and manually enter each country - this handy helper does it for you all.

I am in the process of writing an online store with Cake and needed a helper that would automatically resize images into thumbnails.

This will repeat messages from the error.log as well as variables, form data, validation errors, session data, and other useful info into the Firebug console window. Other than the normal log usage, you don't have to tell it to trace anything, it'll get the info automagically.

How to easily create pdf output from CakePHP using the Freely licenced fpdf library found at http://fpdf.org/

This Article is strongly based on the old wiki entry by Ozly all credit goes to him all errors can be attributed to me.

"This class is designed to provide a non-module, non-commercial alternative to dynamically creating PDF documents from within PHP. Obviously this will not be quite as quick as the module alternatives, but it is surprisingly fast, this demonstration page is almost a worst case due to the large number of fonts which are displayed. There are a number of features which can be within a PDF document that it is not at the moment possible to use with this class, but I feel that it is useful enough to be released."

if you don't know if an image you're about to display exists

A handy tool to generate maps using Google Map API.

Use this helper to add a GoogleMap to your application. For a tutorial on how to use it, check out http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/186.

helper for dAuth v0.3

Helper part of othAuth
changes:
0.1.2:
- Fixed another bug in getData ( wasn't calling init())
- Added support for 1.2
- Added a function hasPermission by Brett ODonnell aka cornernote

0.1.1:
- Fixed a bug in getData
- uses the session helper now

Direct SmartyView (http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/124) usage in Cake has some limitations, the SmartyHelpers are here to help you out.

The geography helper allows you to easily produce arrays of states and countries for convenient use within the form helper select function, as well as format state names, longitudes, and latitudes.

You want to use a non-standard font for headlines or a navigation on your site, you want to keep them dynamic but you don't want to use Flash - this helper might be for for you.

This let's you easily use Textile to process content for your application.

Just drop it in /views/helpers/textile.php, then $textile->process($thedata).

You can also $textile->processRestricted($thedata) if input is coming from an unreliable source.

This uses the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE to determine the current users most accepted language. It takes the the first one of all accepted, then looks up the available translations and delivers. If all fails, or no good translation was found, it returns the default string.

The pagination helper, for instruction on use see: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/65

A helper to make writing Selenium tests easier. See http://www.openqa.org/selenium-core/

Helps you using the Behaviour Javacript in your App. Behaviour can be used to attach Javascript to Elements. With this you can easily avoid using inline-Javascript.

A helper to format the output from findAllThreaded() into a HTML list.

A Dojo Helper class for some Widgets but mainly for AJAX support like you know it from the AJAX Helper!