Video Tutorials I stumpled upon it by accident today: tv.cakephp.org A great new cake site devoted to all kinds of video tutorials related to CakePHP. There are not only screencasts for beginners but also for more experienced developers, as well…
GoogleMapsV3 CakePHP Helper
This is a helper to generate GoogleMap maps (dynamic and static ones) in your CakePHP views. Note: Google Maps API V2 is marked "deprecated". API V3 is supposed to be faster and more compatible to mobile browsers. Details Also new:…
Flattr CakePHP Helper
Get "Flattred" As you can see wordpress (and my blog) already has a Flattr plugin (for posts) and a widget (for the sidebar). With a little helper you can easily integrate Flattr to your site – the "cake way". I…
Internet Tips and Tricks
Youtube Links exact to the second Using a timestamp we can now post and share youtube links with a specific starting point. Format: …#t={x}m{y}s (x = minutes, y = seconds) Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyz#t=2m45s Now the video starts at 2 minutes and…
Frequent PHP problems and solutions
I started off with frequent CakePHP problems last month. This month I add some common PHP problems. Strip additional white spaces With UTF8 the "normal" preg_replace doesn’t really work anymore. For some cases we could use the following trick: $str…
Preventing Brute Force on Login
With default cake login procedures a user could try unlimited passwords to one specific account. That means, if you write a bot that tries every possible combination (thousand times per minute!), this bot could eventually gain access to the account….
Loading Classes on the fly
With the LazyLoading Model from Lorenzo (there are other sources as well) we already speed up the application by 20-40% (depending on the application size and amount of models). Something i never really liked is that components and helpers can…
Frequent CakePHP problems and solutions
On Google Groups you read about some problems over and over. So i thought, why not putting the most frequent ones together. Add/Edit Post Url If you have an url like "/products/add/import:1/manufacturer:4" and you want to preserve the url on…
About PHP basics and pitfalls
AND, && and & Usually you use && in favor of AND. At least, I prefer! Cake code conventions state the same. But they do exactly the same: They "intelligently" match the conditions and abort as SOON as the first…
Complete CakePHP naming conventions
For details into some aspects take a look at my old "coding standards" summary. Database Database tables are plural: "comments" or "user_comments" etc. I recommend to stick to conventions and underscore + lowercase all table fields: "last_login" (instead of "lastLogin"…