The basics Usually, this is already well known. But.. there are still developers who actually store the password unhashed. You always have to store user passwords hashed. You can either use the still very common sha1 method (which is the…
Month: August 2011
Gravatar CakePHP Helper
An independent Avatar-Generator 90% of all blogs out there use gravatar. Therefore you can easily use it with most of your users’ email addresses. But even if you don’t want your users to use their gravatar image you can still…
Forms and redirecting
Redirecting in your CakePHP app My CommonComponent now contains three redirecting methods: /** * @param mixed $url * @param bool $useReferer * returns nothing and automatically redirects * 2010-11-06 ms */ public function autoRedirect($whereTo, $useReferer = true) { if ($useReferer…
Useful CakePHP shell scripts
Today I want to present some useful shell scripts I often use. Hopefully you find them useful, as well 🙂 Where to put them Drop shells in a vendor folder of your choice (either app, core, or plugin), for instance:…