Over the last months, I collected some useful tips again for CakePHP apps and development you might find useful. Data Integrity for your DB content I usually also don’t take this into account when creating new table relations, even though…
Tag: Helper
Helper? Component? Lib? CakePHP2
Note: For 1.3 see the old article on this subject. I want to outline some ideas on how to chose the appropriate class type if you want to add some additional feature to your cake app. For a beginner it…
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…
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:…
Helper? Component? Lib?
Some ideas what to use if you want to add some additional feature. Feel free to comment on this below. Level of Independence We need to ask ourselves if this feature needs to interact with other cake elements, like controller,…