Well, I’ve finally gathered enough good CakePHP links to warrant another tutorial roundup. It’s not that there haven’t been any good CakePHP posts out there – the blogs are full of ‘em, especially with 1.3 finally in beta – it’s just that I’ve been (and still am) pretty busy. But as always, I’m constantly coming [...]
I’ve majorly retooled my recently released Zend_Search_Lucene datasource for CakePHP. You can find the latest version on Github, and I’ve also updated the tutorial to reflect the changes.
I’m notoriously bad at writing good htaccess redirection rules, so when it came time to write a rule that would redirect any non-www URL to its www equivalent, I was a bit lost. I wanted a rule that I could apply to any website without needing to hard-code the domain. I found a few examples [...]
Major update January 22/10: much of the content of this article has been updated to reflect the changes to the datasource, the latest version of which you can download on Github. Just out of the oven – a Zend_Search_Lucene datasource for CakePHP (built with 1.2 but probably works just fine in 1.3) that I originally [...]
OK, so I’ve been working a lot with Cake’s Tree Behavior for the past six or seven months, because a lot of the plugins I’m building at work require complex category structure (i.e. more complex than simple parent -> child). Tree Behavior’s implementation of MPTT is good, but – unless I’m using the behavior incorrectly [...]
Just a quick update – I’m currently working on integrating some libraries from the Zend Framework into CakePHP. The first one I’m doing is Zend_Validate, which is a heavy, robust alternative to CakePHP’s own Validation class. I’ll be sharing my results as a plugin when I’m done. Stay tuned.