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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Zend Framework is one of the best things to happen to PHP since the introduction of objects. But one area that’s always bugged me has been Zend_Loader, specifically its autoloader. For a framework with an extremely rigid class naming structure, you’d think the autoloader would be light and intuitive. Yet it’s a lot more [...]