CakePHP is full of amazingly handy little bits and pieces, the trick is discovering them by exploring the API or paying attention to people who know Cake inside out.
AppHelper sits there begging to be filled, the idea being that you can overload core helper methods here; however there is a lot of debate as to [...]
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Overload $this->tags & $this->map in Apphelper
At last the CakePHP books have arrived
I’d like to say it never rains but it pours, but that would be entirely the wrong sentiment, I need something more like good things come to those who wait…
Anyway after an epic wait a flurry of CakePHP books have arrived.
details on Amazon
details on Amazon
details on Amazon
view at Manning
I haven’t read any of these books [...]
XAMPP and the PHP CLI
Like a lot of people I do most of my development work on windows PC and locally run a web a server and database. Like a a lot of people I just downloaded and installed a server bundle. For the last few years I have used Apache2triad and it has generally been pretty painless, but [...]
CakePHP Calendar Helper
About six months ago I wrote a post about a Simple PHP calendar function I had written and how it was also really easy to use as a CakePHP helper.
I didn’t actually write the calendar specifically with Cake in mind, but I was working on a Cake site at the same time and I [...]
A simple jQuery menu with persistence using cookies
Recently I’ve been making a concerted effort to learn jQuery the JavaScript framework as opposed to just using all the wonderful plugins off the shelf.
Recently I needed a bit of code to show and hide a navigation menu, but with persistence using cookies so as you move from page to page it can remember which [...]