Wow, I haven’t posted anything on my blog for a while. I guess I must be busy. A new baby will have that effect. Anyway, I’m happy to release an update to my Copyable behavior, which I shared with everyone a few months ago. Download the new version on the Github repository. Along with some [...]
UPDATE June 02/10: Please check out the update to Copyable behavior Until I switched to CakePHP, any CMS I built for a client had a “copy this item” tool. The Cake framework doesn’t have anything like that built in, so for the past year or so the new Cake-powered CMS I built for work hasn’t [...]
Yup, I realize that beforeSave() is a little wonky. My fault for not testing before making a major change. Update coming tonight on Github.
Here’s a quickie – a Cipher behavior for CakePHP to handle two-way encryption of sensitive data. If you want to store, say, credit card information, you’ll need a way to retrieve it later; Cake’s built-in security hashing is one-way, meaning that once it’s encrypted it ain’t comin’ back. So, I turned to the Zend Framework [...]
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.
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.
The Validation::postal() method that comes with CakePHP 1.2 is good in that it can handle a number of different country formats, but the problem is you can only validate your data against one country. What if you want to accept, say, either Canadian or US postal/zip code formats? I ran into this problem earlier today, [...]