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WhoDidIt behavior: monitor who has manipulated a record automagically in CakePHP

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:13:16 +0100

In this blog posts I'll introduce you to the WhoDidIt Model Behavior for CakePHP!

Why I developed it

Building a CMS like application I wanted to keep track of:

who did create a record
who did modify it

possibly this has [...]

Ajax: how to prevent IE from caching Ajax GET requests

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:03:43 +0100

As you probably know the Internet Explorer family is greedy for caching!

This is not particularly pleasant if you don't know that this peculiarity also applies to Ajax GET requests!

Strictly speacking IE caches Ajax GET requests, therefore making all your web2.0 tricks effortless!

My solution in roder to [...]

MySQL: how to synchronize remote and local databases with shell and ssh

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:52:33 +0100

Well, while synchronizing your local developement application with a production application is quite strightforward nowadays using Capistrano or rsync, database syncronization can be sometime [...]

Slug: normalize string and strip special characters with CakePHP Inflector::slug()

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:33:10 +0100

Do you ever wanted to achieve SEO friendly urls?

Namely forget those ugly id-driven request like

www.mysite.com/posts/view/3

and switch to something more human readable like including the title of the post in the url

www.mysite.com/posts/view/3:the_title_of_my_post [...]

How to build a Google like Ajax loader: the red loading... bar

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:10:43 +0100

Well a lot of work lately but finally I found a bit of time to write a quick tutorial!!
This time we will build a Google like ajax loading red bar!
We will use jQuery and a bit of CSS to achieve this purpose!

CakePHP models: using multiple DB connections

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:35:28 +0100

In this tutorial we will see how you can grab your data from different/multiple DB connections in the same application.
This is particularly usefull if you need to integrate your application with an existing system: let's immagine for example that your application needs to retrieve users data, and that the users data are shared by [...]

Custom validation rules in CakePHP 1.2: the userDefined method

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:13:18 +0100

How can we use custom validation rules in CakePHP 1.2?
The first way is to go straight with regular expressions, but we the using the userDefined() method of the Validation class you can define your own rules in your model, or better in the AppModel so they will be shared by all your models if [...]

CakePHP tips&tricks: lock that Admin Routing with 'admin'=>'1'

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:36:09 +0100

Well today I'll share with you a small trick about Admin Routing!
As the CakePHP manual states, Admin Routing are:
"special URLs so users with administrative privileges can access special actions in controllers"
Admin Routing are a confortable way provided by CakePHP to build the backend [...]

YAMMY! DB to Yaml shell: migrations made easy in CakePHP

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:18:51 +0100

Ready?!?
Today we will talk about migrations, yaml files and CakePHP and in particular I'll introduce you to the latest shell I've written for CakePHP: YAMMY!
I've written YAMMY! a couple of weeks ago, but I just found the time to release it today. Anyway lets get into more details!
WHAT ARE [...]

SMAKE: SMF forum - CakePHP integration

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:37:57 +0100

Today I'll present you a convinient way of integrating the Simple Machine Forum (SMF) into your CakePHP applications.
Well the problem is that the SMF DB table used to store sessions does not follow the CakePHP conventions, [...]