Articles tagged with "helpers"

Dojo Helper

By Christian Trummer
A Dojo Helper class for some Widgets but mainly for AJAX support like you know it from the AJAX Helper!
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Threaded Lists

By James Hall
Ever needed a tree of sections with an unlimited depth? Here's a quick guide to findAllThreaded().
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Create Multiple Checkboxes Instead of a Multiple-Select in your Views

By Joshua McFarren
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.
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Generate Excel spreadsheets from your database

By Jan Boonen
With CakePHP you can easily create views from database models. At times, however, you need to output your database model as a spreadsheet file. In this article I'll show how you can use PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer class to generate an Excel spreadsheet with CakePHP.
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Barcode with cake

By Marco Sbragi
How to print barcode with cakephp and pdfb library
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Basic Pagination Overview (1.2)

By Rob Conner
Just a basic introduction to the wonderful abilities of pagination in Cake 1.2. Gives an overview of how to use pagination to do some very complex things with very little code.
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Lightroom Helper

By Julian Phillip Sander
This is a simple helper for people who want to use the lightbox.js
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