While working in my recent “charity project” i had to list all charities found in a particular region or state. I created a regions_controller and an index function in it to fetch and set records and index.ctp as a view…
Category: CakePHP
An alternate to paginator counter showing page in cakephp
An ordinary yet useful piece of hack to the way the cakephp pagination’s pages “showing page” parameter is displayed. As default, we are used to use $paginator->counter() method which gives us a counter string for the paged result set like…
Cakephp important facts you must know – Part 2
CakePHP comes with a bunch of useful helpers and components which provide user handy tools to process and manipulate data. These helpers are not only the valuable assets for the framework user, but can be of great help to someone…
Error handling in cakephp
Error handling in CakePHP is pretty simple and straight forward. While developing in CakePHP with debug value set to > 0 (Configure::write(‘debug’, 1); in app/config/core.php) you might have encountered error messages something similar to this:
How to use multiple validation rule sets per model in cakephp
As default we have single var $validate rule set in the model class which is triggered on each save() method call while saving form data. This is quite logical and sufficient for single form fields to validate but what if…
How to apply search filters in cakephp ajax pagination
Sometimes we need to filter records via custom query while using ajax pagination in a cakephp application. An easy way to achieve this is to store query in a session varibale and to check it whenever an ajax call is…
Cakephp important facts you must know – Part 1
Mininal use of $uses variable to load models CakePHP loads all models specified in var $uses array when a controller action is called. By loading a model cakephp creates the schema/structure of the table and also caches it for further…
Multiple validation rules for a single field in cakephp
Cakephp framework provides a strong model validation mechanism. Here is the quick overview of multiple validation rules applied to a single field. Let say we are using “User.password” and “User.password2” fields to accept/confirm password while registering to a site. We…
TinyMce and Captcha collide in my cakephp application
I was struck in a very strange problem today. I was using captcha component to create and set a captcha session and image for view section. Next is the snippet of create function which i used to load component. I…
