Articles tagged with plugin

Ajax Chat Plugin

By Matt Curry
A basic Ajax chat plugin.
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Shells plugin

By John Reeves
If you have ever used some cheap web host that doesn't allow shell access, it has likely been a bit of a pain to do some tasks. As my first try at a contribution and a plugin, and one that I plan to use, here is my first version of a shell plugin. It gives you access to a shell command line. It uses ajax to send the commands and read the response.
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Rewrite a plugin's paths to look nicer.

By Brandon Parise
Plugins are a fantastic and vastly underused tool in CakePHP! But their default paths can be strange sometimes. This article describes how to rewrite a plugin's paths using bootstrap.php.
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WikkaCake: Using CakePHP as an Embedded Framework

By Brian Koontz
While CakePHP certainly stands on its own merits as a standalone rapid-development framework, it is also an ideal platform for implementing a "plugin" architecture for other existing frameworks. This case study explores one such implementation with WikkaWiki.
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ACL Management Plugin

By Jeff Loiselle
A simple, easy, AJAXY, solution for managing your access control lists.
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Rolling you own Gallery2 component

By Abhishek Dujari
Gallery2 is a Media Manager and can be embedded in other applications like CMS. Gallery2 also has an API that we can use to embed Gallery into our Web Apps. Below is only a sample of what can be done. If you find it interesting enough, please contribute your improvements and suggestions as well as any code. I have only been working with CakePHP for little over two weeks, so not saying this is the best way. My first post so go easy :)
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