The Bakery Everything CakePHP

This is how I setup CakePHP on my MacBook with PHP5 and MySQL5. I have MacOS X 10.4.8 installed.

Cake doesn't tell you the difference between an Model->save() that fails because of a validation error, and one that fails because of key constraint violation (that is, a duplicate entry). Here, I will show you an easy way to overcome this. (MySQL specific)

Trick howto reduce amount of HABTM tables in complex application

A simple behavior that sets proper collation for order by SQL statements based on the current localization.