Just a quick note. I had a “is_active” field in my users table which i had been using to store boolean 0 and 1 values. Later, i mean today, i decided to save a new value -1 to this field but when i did try, it would’t save -1 and would always save it as 1. After looking at a few blog posts around the web i found that in CakePHP every time you try to save a value other that 0 or 1 into a tinyint(1) field it would save it as 1 (as according to Nate, Continue reading
Category Archives: CakePHP
Croogo – A free open source CakePHP powered CMS for PHP
Croogo is a free web based CMS (Content Management System) for PHP built on the top of CakePHP MVC framework. It was first released on October 07, 2009 by Fahad Ibnay Heylaal. It’s latest version is Croogo-1.3.2 and it could be downloaded here. Continue reading
New improved CakePHP cookbook documentation
Gone are the old days when CakePHP developers would complain about the in-sufficient documentation available in CakePHP. CakePHP community has not only improved existing documentations but going a step further they have added separate tabs for all three main versions (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) to make it easy for the readers to switch into one version and another. Continue reading
CakePHP 1.3.4 released, 2.0 on the way!
The CakePHP core team announded the release of CakePHP 1.3.4 recently (on Sep 12, 2010). It was almost within month since the last CakePHP release i.e. 1.3.3. The team announced that there had been a few changes which could affect applications built in 1.3.3. Continue reading
Use of custom displayField paramater in CakePHP
The $this->displayField is used to define custom display field while doing ‘list’ or scaffolding in CakePHP. It can be specified either in Model class or just before making a db call. Continue reading
Using Inflector singularize and camelize for taking out model name in CakePHP
We can use CakePHP library’s Inflector::singularize() and Inflector::camelize() methods for taking out corresponding model name from a controller name (provided we follow CakePHP’s naming conventions well). Continue reading
Security component black hole, form submit dies on a blank page with no error
The problem started when i used Auth component in my current CakePHP project. Everything seemed working fine until i created an html form, submitted it and tried to retrieve this form’s data in controller action. I tried to print $this->data in controller action but it showed nothing and ended on a blank white page (which is called “blackHole” in Security component’s language). Continue reading
Fix to jQuery plugin does not work on ajax loaded content
I had been loading table records through ajax pagination using jquery. Some of the urls/links (View Details, Edit and Delete) in loaded content had been using thickbox to handle respective requests. Although, if i did’t use the ajax to load records these links would work fine and thickbox would open. But once i introduced ajax they suddenly stopped working. Continue reading
Cakephp pagination and custom named arguments handling
Let’s have a look at the scenario first.
I have a “contacts” controller, a “display” action in it(controller) and a view “display.ctp” to show results. As normal my “display” action lists all the contacts by calling $this->set(‘contacts’, $this->paginate(‘Contact’)) inside the controller action “display”. The view works normal. Continue reading
Creating Ajax form in Cakephp using jQuery
Because of its being more flexible, extensible and precise nature the jQuery certainly has emerged as a more popular Javascript library as compared to prototype library. If you plan your Cakephp application depend heavily on Javascript, its right time to chose jQuery for your cakephp-cum-javascript needs. Continue reading