'CakePHP' Category

• Overriding specific HTML tags before using helper methods

  September 27, 2007

  While enjoying the wonderful CakePHP live show (don’t despair, I will be on soon, adding some of my latin flavor to spice up phishy’s boring comments… just kidding , PhpNut made…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• CakePHP 1.2 tip of the day: be mindful of Model::set

  September 26, 2007

  Even if Model::set seems to have a defined functionality, it wouldn’t be insane that you get stuck with a common developer mistake: forget what you should expect of a method. Consider the following code running on a controller (where…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• Modelizing HABTM join tables in CakePHP 1.2: with and auto-with models

  September 19, 2007

  One of CakePHP 1.2 coolest features are known as HABTM with models, which are particularly useful when you have a hasAndBelongsToMany binding between two models that may contain extra information (i.e: table fields) attached to the binding. They are…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• Using Configure in CakePHP applications

  September 14, 2007

  I love CakePHP’s Configure class, available both in CakePHP 1.1 and 1.2 branches. It is extremely useful to store application settings that you may need application-wide. What I normally do is add this line to app/config/bootstrap.php:

  Configure::load('config');

  And…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• Response to dho leaving the CakePHP team

  August 31, 2007

  I’ve just finished reading dho’s goodbye message to the CakePHP team. While I may or may not agree with Daniel’s feelings of being left behind, the thing that should always matter are actual facts, not feelings.…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• Chilling out thanks to CakePHP

  February 5, 2007

  Who said programming can’t be fun? Who said it should take you away all your free time? One of the things programmers look for (or should, for that matter) is how to speed up the development process. Why? Because

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  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• Limiting the associated models returned with CakePHP

  December 13, 2006

  Tom OReilly produced a handy solution on the bakery (Keeping bindModel and unbindModel out of your Controllers) to allow to overcome performance issues when querying a model that has a lot of associations with other models.…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• Something to consider when saving HABTM records in CakePHP

  December 10, 2006

  Just the other day I was in the process of saving an HABTM (Have And Belongs To Many) field with CakePHP, specifically for saving the relations between a model Project and another model Category. I first had to do…

  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• CakePHP Web Service native support

  November 29, 2006

  Today an interesting discussion went on CakePHP Google Group regarding the native support for web services Cake offers. After that a couple of articles got written on different blogs (they are still awaiting authorization to be

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  posted in CakePHP by mariano

• New articles on the Bakery

  November 28, 2006

  I just got published a couple of articles regarding CakePHP on the bakery. Check them out:

  Adding friendly URLs to The Cake Blog Tutorial: On this tutorial we’ll learn how to modify The

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  posted in CakePHP by mariano